# Around abelian schemes over the integers

This is the transcription to blog format of a talk I gave at the UC Berkeley Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar about several topics related to Fontaine’s famous result that there are no abelian schemes over $\mathbb{Z}$.

# Local class field theory: a discussion

In this post we discuss local class field theory (specifically looking at $p$-adic fields) with a focus on the broader picture, and the multiple approaches.

# p-divisible groups, formal groups, and the Serre-Tate theorem

In this post we discuss the basic theory of p-divisible groups, their relationship to formal groups, and the Serre-Tate theorem.

# A Different Viewpoint on Étale Cohomology

In this post, I would just like to discuss a slightly different perspective on the étale cohomology of varieties. This might be called the ‘relative’ or ‘monodromy’ perspective, and it is rife with geometric intuition. While certainly first principles in some regards, it’s a point of view that I humbly believe is not emphasized well in most basic texts on the subject (e.g. Milne’s Lectures on Étale Cohomology).