\(\Lambda\)-adic Barsotti-Tate groups (Q403417)

Given a valuation ring \(R\), a \(\Lambda\)-BT group \({\mathcal G}={\mathcal G}_R\) is an inductive limit of \(p\)-divisible Barsotti-Tate groups \({\mathcal G}_n={\mathcal G}_{n,R}\), \(n\in {\mathbb N}\), defined over \(R\) with an action of the Iwasawa algebra \(\Lambda=\Lambda_W:=W[[x]]\) as endomorphisms. Here \(W\) is a discrete valuation ring finite flat over \({\mathbb Z}_p\), and \(W[[x]]\) is the ring of power series in one variable. The main goal of this paper is to establish some basic facts about \(\Lambda\)-BT groups and also to point out their relation to the \({\mathcal L}\)-invariant of adjoint square \(L\)-functions of modular forms. The organization of the paper is as follows. In Section 2, \(U(p)\)-isomorphisms are studied. A list of questions and desirable properties of \(\Lambda\)-BT groups is given in Section 3. In Section 4, it is given a construction of the modular \(\Lambda\)--BT group \({\mathcal G}_{\mathbb Q}\) over \({\mathbb Q}\) via the ordinary projector. In Section 5 the author constructs \(\Lambda\)-BT groups over \({\mathbb Z}_{(p)}[\mu_{p^{\infty}}]\). In both sections, 4 and 5, most of the properties in Section 3 for the modular \(\Lambda\)-BT groups are verified. The remaining properties of Section 3 related to reduction modulo \(p\) with \(p\) a prime \(\geq 5\) of the modular \(\Lambda\)-BT groups are proved in Section 6. Finally, in Sections 7 and 8, the theory developed is related to the problem of nonvanishing of the adjoint \({\mathcal L}\)-invariants.