Subvarieties of pointed Abelian l-groups
Abstract
This paper provides a complete classification of the subvarieties and subquasivarieties of pointed Abelian lattice-ordered groups (-groups) that are generated by their totally ordered members. We present two complementary approaches to achieve this classification. First, using purely -group-theoretic methods, we analyze the structure of lexicographic products and values to identify all join-irreducible members of the lattice of subvarieties of positively pointed Abelian -groups. We provide a novel equational basis for each of these subvarieties, leading to a complete description of the entire subvariety lattice. As a direct application, our -group-theoretic classification yields an alternative, self-contained proof of Komori's classification of subvarieties of MV-algebras. Second, we explore the connection to MV-algebras via Mundici's functor. We prove that this functor preserves universal classes, a result of independent model-theoretic interest. This allows us to lift the classification of universal classes of totally ordered MV-algebras, due to Gispert, to a complete classification of universal classes of totally ordered pointed Abelian -groups. As a direct consequence, we obtain a full description of the corresponding lattice of subquasivarieties.
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@article{arxiv.2509.05044,
title = {Subvarieties of pointed Abelian l-groups},
author = {Filip Jankovec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05044},
year = {2026}
}