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Undecidable Lt theories of topological abelian groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Gregory L. Cherlin
Affiliation:
Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
Peter H. Schmitt
Affiliation:
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

We prove the hereditary undecidability of the Lt theories of:

(1) torsion-free Hausdorff topological abelian groups;

(2) locally pure Hausdorff topological abelian groups.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1981

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