The Nottingham group can be described as the group of normalized automorphi
sms of the ring F-p[[t]], namely, those automorphisms acting trivially on t
F(p)[[t]]/t(2)F(p)[[t]]. In this paper we consider certain proper subgroups
of the Nottingham group. We prove that these subgroups are identical to th
eir normalizers and that some of them are isomorphic to the Nottingham grou
p. 1991 Mathematics subject classification: 20E18.