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Marc Palm
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Representation theory of compact groups: The representation theory is the same as for finite groups, only that there might be infinitely many isomorphism classes of irreducible representations.

(That's the Peter Weyl Theorem!)

Perhaps it would be a much better question, to interpret a well known theorem in one sentence!