TITLE: Morphisms of formal group laws $\,F_a \rightarrow F_m\,$ and $\,F_m\to F_m$
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: While studying cohomology theories on the stable homotopy setting, I have come up with the following basic question:
Consider the additive formal group law, $F_a$, and the multiplicative formal group law, $F_m$, both defined over a ring $R$. 
If $R$ is a $\mathbb{Q}$-algebra, the exponential series defines a morphism of formal group laws 
$$F_a \to F_m \quad , \quad x \mapsto e^x := \sum_{k=0}^\infty x^k / k! $$ and it is not difficult to check that any other morphism $\,f\colon F_a \to F_m\,$ is of the form $f (x) = e^{ax}$, for some $a\in R$. 
I can extend the previous reasoning in case $R$ is an integral domain–of any characteristic–, and I am wondering how many morphisms of formal group laws $F_a \to F_m$ are there over a general ring. That is to say:
The question is to describe all the series $\,f \in R[[x]]\,$ such that
$$ f (s+t) = f(s)\cdot f(t) \qquad \mbox{ and } \qquad f(0) = 1 \ . 
$$  

On the other hand, I am also interested in endomorphisms of the multiplicative group law $F_m$. The obvious ones are rising to the $k^{th}$ power, for $k \in \mathbb{Z}$:  
$$ F_m \to F_m \quad , \quad x \mapsto (1+x)^k \ , $$ and the analogous question would be:
Describe all the series $\,f \in R[[x]]\,$ such that
$$ f( x + y + xy) = f(x) \cdot f(y) \quad \mbox{ and } \quad f(0) = 1 \ . $$
I think that there only exist these "rising to the $k^{th}$-power" maps, no matter the ring of coefficients.

REPLY [3 votes]: For endomorphisms of $F_m$ one should consider the ring of numerical polynomials:
$$ P = \{f(a)\in \mathbb{Q}[a]: f(\mathbb{Z})\subseteq\mathbb{Z}\} $$
The functions $b_i(a)=\left(\begin{array}{c}a\\ i\end{array}\right)$ give a basis for $P$ over $\mathbb{Z}$, with 
$$ b_ib_j = \sum_{m=\max(i,j)}^{i+j} \frac{m!}{(m-i)!(m-j)!(i+j-m)!} b_m. $$
We have a series $f(x)=\sum_{i>0}b_ix^i\in P[[x]]$ (which is morally "$(1+x)^a-1$") satisfying 
$$ f((1+x)(1+y)-1)=(1+f(x))(1+f(y))-1. $$
In other words, $f$ is an endomorphism of $F_m$.  Any endomorphism of $F_m$ over any ring $R$ arises by applying some homomorphism $P\to R$ to the coefficients of $f(x)$.
Now let $R$ be an algebra over $\mathbb{Z}/p$.  Consider the map $\mathbb{Z}\to R[[x]]$ given by $a\mapsto (1+x)^a-1$.  This is continuous for the $p$-adic topology on $\mathbb{Z}$ and the $x$-adic topology on $R[[x]]$.  This allows us to define $(1+x)^a-1$ for all $a\in\mathbb{Z}_p$, and this is still an endomorphism of $F_m$.
For a more complete story, we should consider $P/p$.  One can identify this with the ring of continuous maps $\mathbb{Z}_p\to\mathbb{Z}/p$ (where $\mathbb{Z}_p$ has the $p$-adic topology, and $\mathbb{Z}/p$ has the discrete topology).  To understand this, put $T=\{u\in\mathbb{Z}_p:u^p=u\}$.  It is known that the reduction map $T\to\mathbb{Z}/p$ is bijective; the inverse map $\tau\colon\mathbb{Z}/p\to T$ is the Teichmuller lift map, given by $\tau(u)=\lim_ku_0^{p^k}$ for any lift $u_0$ of $u$.  Given any element $a\in\mathbb{Z}_p$ there are unique elements $c_k(a)\in\mathbb{Z}/p$ such that $a=\sum_k\tau(c_k(a))p^k$.  The functions $c_k$ are continuous, so they give elements of $P/p$.  In fact, we find that
$$ P/p = \mathbb{Z}/p[c_0,c_1,c_2,\dotsb]/(c_k^p-c_k). $$
Any homomorphism from this ring to $R$ will give an endomorphism of $F_m$ defined over $R$.
All of the above can be extracted from the literature on operations and cooperations in complex $K$-theory and its $p$-adic completion.