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Let $R$ be a complete discrete valuation ring of residue characteristic of a field $p$, with maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$, and let $F$ be a one-dimensional formal group law over $R$. Its multiplication series is $[n{]}_F(T)=nT+O(T^2)$. If $p\nmid n$, the invertible morphism criterion for formal group laws constructs its inverse with coefficients in $R$. Both formal power series converge on $\mathfrak{m}$, since their coefficients are integral and the powers of an element of $\mathfrak{m}$ tend to zero. Their compositions are the identity there. Thus multiplication by $n$ is bijective, including when $p=2$ and $n$ is odd. Every finite-order element of $F(\mathfrak{m})$ consequently has order of a group element equal to a prime power with prime $p$.

On $y^2=x^3+ax+b$ in characteristic of a field other than two, take the elementary symmetric polynomials $s_i$ of $x(P),x(Q),x(P+Q)$. If the line through $P,Q$ is $y=\lambda x+\mu$, its third intersection is $-(P+Q)$, so coefficient comparison gives $s_1={\lambda }^2$, $s_2=a-2\lambda \mu$, $s_3={\mu }^2-b$. Hence $(s_2-a{)}^2=4s_1(s_3+b)$. This is an identity of rational functions; tangent cases follow by specialization, and coordinates at infinity are handled through the projective addition map.

The tabloid bilinear form makes the tabloid basis orthonormal and restricts to an invariant bilinear form on each Specht module. In positive characteristic of a field, its radical controls the corresponding simple quotient.