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A Model Companion for Abelian Lattice-Ordered Groups with a Valuation

Logic 2026-04-07 v2

Abstract

An abelian lattice-ordered group, or abelian \ell-group, is an abelian group equipped with a compatible lattice ordering. In this paper, we introduce two multi-sorted extensions of abelian lattice-ordered groups inspired by the zero-set maps for continuous functions into R. We demonstrate that this expansion is equivalent to equipping G with a spectral subspace X of \ell-Spec(G), along with the map sending aGa \in G to V(a0)XV(a \wedge 0) \cap X. Using a classical partial quantifier elimination result originally due to Fuxing Shen and Volker Weispfenning, we show that one of these expansions admits a model companion, which is complete and has quantifier elimination in a small language expansion.

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@article{arxiv.2603.09423,
  title  = {A Model Companion for Abelian Lattice-Ordered Groups with a Valuation},
  author = {John Stokes-Waters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09423},
  year   = {2026}
}
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