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Model-Completeness and Elementary Properties of Torsion Free Abelian Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Elias Zakon
Elias Zakon*
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University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
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The decidability of the elementary theory of abelian groups, and their complete classification by elementary properties (i.e. those formalizable in the lower predicate calculus (LPC) of formal logic), were established by W. Szmielew [13]. More general results were proved by Eklof and Fischer [2], and G. Sabbagh [12]. The rather formidable "high-power" techniques used in obtaining these remarkable results, and the length of the proofs (W. Szmielew's proof takes about 70 pages) triggered off several attempts at simplification. M. I. Kargapolov's proof [3] unfortunately turned out to be erroneous (cf. J. Mennicke's review in the Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 32, p. 535).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , August 1974 , pp. 829 - 840
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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