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Let kG be the completed group algebra of a uniform pro-p group G with coefficients in a field k of characteristic p. We study right ideals I in kG that are invariant under the action of another uniform pro-p group Γ. We prove that if I is non-zero then an irreducible component of the characteristic support of kG/I must be contained in a certain finite union of rational linear subspaces of Spec gr kG. The minimal codimension of these subspaces gives a lower bound on the homological height of I in terms of the action of a certain Lie algebra on G/G p . If we take Γ to be G acting on itself by conjugation, then Γ-invariant right ideals of kG are precisely the two-sided ideals of kG, and we obtain a non-trivial lower bound on the homological height of a possible non-zero two-sided ideal. For example, when G is open in SLn(Zp) this lower bound equals 2n − 2. This gives a significant improvement of the results of Ardakov, Wei and Zhang [AWZ1] on reflexive ideals in Iwasawa algebras.

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