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For questions about modular representation theory, the study of representations over a field of positive characteristic.

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Can we use formal groups to recover Lie-theoretic representation theory in characteristic p?

The short answer is that the characteristic $p$ picture genuinely has more depth. In particular it's not correct to think of formal groups as "better" than Lie groups. In fact, they can be put on equa …
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