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In this paper I consider a different approach to this problem of understanding the fluidity of ring structures and in particular to the problem of quantifying the fluidity of the additive structures on the set OΔK ∪ {0} for a p-adic field K.
I began thinking of this problem in Kyoto (Spring 2018) and my preoccupation with it became more or less permanent on my return from Kyoto.

The idea, which I elaborate here, occurred to me in a recent lecture by Michael Hopkins at the Arizona Winter School (2019).
In one of his lectures, Hopkins narrated an anecdote about Daniel Quillen’s discovery of the role of formal groups in topological cohomology theories:
in particular Quillen’s assertion (to Hopkins) that “as addition rule for Chern classes fails to hold,
it must therefore fail in worst possible way?namely by means of a formal group”
(I am paraphrasing both Hopkins and Quillen here).

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