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On the notion of algebraic closedness for noncommutative groups and fields
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2014
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The notion of algebraic closedness plays an important part in the theory of commutative fields. The corresponding notion in the theory of ordered fields is (not only intuitively but in a sense which can be made precise in a metamathematical framework, compare [4]) that of a real closed ordered field. Several suggestions have been made (see [2] and [8]) for the formulation of corresponding concepts in the theory of groups and in the theory of skew fields (division rings, noncommutative fields). Here we present a concept of this kind, which preserves the principal metamathematical properties of algebraically closed commutative fields and which applies to a wide class of first order theories K, including the theories of commutative and of skew fields and the theories of commutative and of general groups.
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