The crystalline period of a height one p-adic dynamical system over \mathbf{Z}_p

Abstract: Let

f

be a continuous ring endomorphism of

m a t h b f Z_{p} [[x]] / m a t h b f Z_{p}

of degree

p .

We prove that if

f

acts on the tangent space at

0

by a uniformizer and commutes with an automorphism of infinite order, then it is necessarily an endomorphism of a formal group over

m a t h b f Z_{p} .

The proof relies on finding a stable embedding of

m a t h b f Z_{p} [[x]]

in Fontaine's crystalline period ring with the property that

f

appears in the monoid of endomorphisms generated by the Galois group of

m a t h b f Q_{p}

and crystalline Frobenius. Our result verifies, over

m a t h b f Z_{p},

the height one case of a conjecture by Lubin.

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