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The profinite completion of certain residually-finitep-groups

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It is proved that the profinite completions of the residually finitep-groups constructed by Gupta and Sidki are not torsion groups.

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia

    John R. McMullen

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This research was carried out at Erlangen with the assistance of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

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McMullen, J.R. The profinite completion of certain residually-finitep-groups. Monatshefte für Mathematik 99, 311–314 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01312549

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