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YCor
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What is the structure of this group?

Let G be the free profinite group on 2 generators, $A=G/[G,[G,G]],B=G/[[G,G],[G,G]]$, then what is the structure of the groups $A$ and $B$?

I heard that $A$ is isomorphic to the group of such ($3\times 3$ below) matrices with entries in $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$, is this right and why? $$ \begin{pmatrix} 1 & * & *\\ 0 & 1 & *\\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} $$

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