{"title":"Constructive quantifier elimination with a focus on matrix rings","authors":"Max Illmer, Tim Netzer","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2025.103706","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We give a sufficient condition for a model theoretic structure <em>B</em> to ‘inherit’ quantifier elimination from another structure <em>A</em>. This yields an alternative proof of one of the main results from <span><span>[8]</span></span>, namely quantifier elimination for certain matrix rings. The original proof uses model theory, and while it is very elegant and insightful, the proof we propose is much shorter and provides a constructive algorithm.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"177 5","pages":"Article 103706"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007225001551","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/12/22 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LOGIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We give a sufficient condition for a model theoretic structure B to ‘inherit’ quantifier elimination from another structure A. This yields an alternative proof of one of the main results from [8], namely quantifier elimination for certain matrix rings. The original proof uses model theory, and while it is very elegant and insightful, the proof we propose is much shorter and provides a constructive algorithm.
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The journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic publishes high quality papers in all areas of mathematical logic as well as applications of logic in mathematics, in theoretical computer science and in other related disciplines. All submissions to the journal should be mathematically correct, well written (preferably in English)and contain relevant new results that are of significant interest to a substantial number of logicians. The journal also considers submissions that are somewhat too long to be published by other journals while being too short to form a separate memoir provided that they are of particular outstanding quality and broad interest. In addition, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic occasionally publishes special issues of selected papers from well-chosen conferences in pure and applied logic.