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The power structure of finite p-groups satisfying conditions like those of Lazard

1 Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, PO Box 118105, 358 Little Hall, Gainesville, FL 326118105, USA *
Lazard proved that finitely generated pro-p groups satisfying
m(G)
Gph are p-adic analytic if m < ph. Recent work has given a very thorough understanding of the finite p-groups that satisfy this condition with h = 1. In this paper, we consider pro-p groups that show that those results cannot be extended to the case of h = 2 for m
2p 1. We do extend many of the results to this case when m
2p 3 as well as under some weaker hypotheses.
Received 12 June 2003.
* E-mail: mtbgosaj{at}lg.ehu.es
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