Hereditarily just-infinite profinite group

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An infinite profinite group is hereditarily just infinite if every open subgroup is a just-infinite profinite group. To prove this, it suffices to show that every nonidentity element of every open subgroup has open closed normal closure: any nontrivial closed normal subgroup then contains that normal closure. The Nottingham group is an example. In odd characteristic its depth-commutator formula constructs nonzero elements of each sufficiently high layer inside any such normal subgroup, and successive coefficient correction fills the entire tail.

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