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Sep 3, 2013 at 11:51 comment added Ricardo Andrade Dear @Tony: It might still be a good idea to add a correction to the question, as not everyone reads the comments.
Jul 4, 2013 at 21:45 answer added Yassine Guerboussa timeline score: 2
Mar 6, 2012 at 17:57 comment added Tony @Derek : Thanks for the correction! You explained it so well that it seems silly to edit the question to include this.
Mar 5, 2012 at 23:37 comment added Derek Holt I don't know the answer to your question, but I don't think that your comments about these groups being universal are quite correct. The quotients in your series are all elementary abelian $p$-groups. You need to define the $p$-nilpotency class of a group using central series with elementary abelian $p$-groups as factors. Your groups are then universal with respect to groups of $p$-nilpotency class $k$.
Mar 5, 2012 at 21:17 comment added Tony I tried. The Hopf formula seems to give me the answer for the quotients of the free group by the ordinary lower central series, but I couldn't make it work for the mod p version (for instance, the relations do not live in the commutator subgroup).
Mar 5, 2012 at 16:41 comment added Chris Gerig Did you try the Hopf Formula? Assuming you know the generators/relations.
Mar 5, 2012 at 16:14 comment added Tony Edited it because I realized that I asked about general $H_k$ when I really only care about $H_2$ (as indicated in the title).
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