Abstract
A topological group which is the projective limit of finite groups, each given the discrete topology, is called a profinite group. Such a group is compact and totally disconnected.
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Serre, JP. (1997). Cohomology of profinite groups. In: Galois Cohomology. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59141-9_1
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