Rigid character groups, Lubin-Tate theory, and $(𝜑,)$-Modules

The construction of the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for \mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbf{Q}_p) uses in an essential way Fontaine's theory of cyclotomic (\varphi ,\Gamma )-modules. Here cyclotomic means that \Gamma = \mathrm {Gal}(\mathbf{Q}_p(\mu_{p^\infty})/\mathbf{Q}_p) is the Galois group of the cyclotomic extension of \mathbf Q_p. In order to generalize the p-adic local Langlands correspondence to \mathrm{GL}_{2}(L), where L is a finite extension of \mathbf{Q}_p, it seems necessary to have at our disposal a theory of Lubin-Tate (\varphi ,\Gamma )-modules. Such a generalization has been carried out, to some extent, by working over the p-adic open unit disk, endowed with the action of the endomorphisms of a Lubin-Tate group. The main idea of this article is to carry out a Lubin-Tate generalization of the theory of cyclotomic (\varphi ,\Gamma )-modules in a different fashion. Instead of the p-adic open unit disk, the authors work over a character variety that parameterizes the locally L-analytic characters on o_L. They study (\varphi ,\Gamma )-modules in this setting and relate some of them to what was known previously.