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Axiomatizations of Presburger Arithmetic With Predicates For Powers

Logic 2026-02-24 v1

Abstract

We give a complete first-order axiomatization of the structure (Z,+,(N)L)(\mathbb{Z},+,(\ell^{\mathbb{N}})_{\ell\in L}), where LZ2L \subseteq \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 2} is a set of pairwise multiplicatively independent integers and N={n:nN}\ell^{\mathbb{N}} = \{\ell^n : n\in \mathbb{N}\}. Using recent work of Karimov et al., we obtain that this axiomatization is computable for L=2|L|=2, which proves that (Z,+,kN,N)(\mathbb{Z},+,k^{\mathbb{N}}, \ell^{\mathbb{N}}) is decidable for k,Z2k, \ell\in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 2}. Furthermore, we give an axiomatization of the universal theory of (Z,+,<,(N)L)(\mathbb{Z},+,<,(\ell^{\mathbb{N}})_{\ell\in L}).

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@article{arxiv.2602.19602,
  title  = {Axiomatizations of Presburger Arithmetic With Predicates For Powers},
  author = {Philipp Hieronymi and Michael Reitmeir and Xiaoduo Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19602},
  year   = {2026}
}