Title:
An overview of Lubin-Tate spectra
Abstract:
In their 1966 paper, Lubin and Tate studied the deformation theory of 1-dimensional commutative formal groups. They showed that this moduli problem is representable by a certain ring with an associated "universal deformation" formal group law. It turns out that this formal group law is Landweber exact and the associated spectrum has a unique E_∞ multiplication, due to a theorem of Goerss, Hopkins and Miller. I will introduce these spectra and briefly discuss their central role in the local structure of chromatic homotopy theory.
