Lectures on p-Divisible Groups (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 302)

The aim of these lectures, given at the Tats Institute in January - February 1971, was to explain the contents of chapters 1, 2 and A of MANIN (I_), The theory of commutative formal groups over fields of finite charac- teristic, English Trans., Russian Math. Sur. 18. For general facts about algebraic groups, our reference is D~24AZURE (M) and GABRIEL (_P), Groupes alg~brlques, Tome 1, North Holland Pub. Co., 1970, which shall be abbreviated as D.G.