{"title":"Ordered abelian groups that do not have elimination of imaginaries","authors":"Martina Liccardo","doi":"10.1007/s00153-025-00965-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the property of elimination of imaginaries for some special cases of ordered abelian groups. We show that certain Hahn products of ordered abelian groups do not eliminate imaginaries in the pure language of ordered groups. Moreover, we prove that, adding finitely many constants to the language of ordered abelian groups, the theories of the finite lexicographic products <span>\\(\\mathbb {Z}^n\\)</span> and <span>\\(\\mathbb {Z}^n \\times \\mathbb {Q}\\)</span> have definable Skolem functions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48853,"journal":{"name":"Archive for Mathematical Logic","volume":"64 5-6","pages":"737 - 753"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Archive for Mathematical Logic","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00153-025-00965-6","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We investigate the property of elimination of imaginaries for some special cases of ordered abelian groups. We show that certain Hahn products of ordered abelian groups do not eliminate imaginaries in the pure language of ordered groups. Moreover, we prove that, adding finitely many constants to the language of ordered abelian groups, the theories of the finite lexicographic products \(\mathbb {Z}^n\) and \(\mathbb {Z}^n \times \mathbb {Q}\) have definable Skolem functions.
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The journal publishes research papers and occasionally surveys or expositions on mathematical logic. Contributions are also welcomed from other related areas, such as theoretical computer science or philosophy, as long as the methods of mathematical logic play a significant role. The journal therefore addresses logicians and mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers who are interested in the applications of mathematical logic in their own field, as well as its interactions with other areas of research.