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This paper is concerned exclusively with compact Hausdorff topological groups, all elements of which have finite order (compact torsion groups). It is well known that a compact torsion group is necessarily totally disconnected [5, (28.20)] and hence profinite.
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McMullen, J.R. (1974). Compact Torsion Groups. In: Newman, M.F. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 372. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21571-5_48
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