Deformations and elements of deformation theory
  This article consisted of an elementary introduction to deformation theory of varieties, schemes and manifolds, with some applications to local and global shtukas and fever to Newton polygons of $p$-divisible groups . Soft problems and results mainly are considered. In the framework we give review of some novel results in the theory of local shtukas, Anderson-modules, global shtukas, Newton polygons of $p$-divisible groups and on deformations of $p$-divisible groups with given Newton polygons. 
Nikolaj Glazunov
math.NT math-ph math.MP