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A decomposability criterion for elementary theories

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We prove that each elementary theory has a unique decomposition into indecomposable components and formulate a decomposability criterion.

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  1. Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Denis Ponomaryov

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Original Russian Text Copyright © 2008 Ponomaryov D. K.

The author was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 05-01-04003-NNIO_a) and DFG project COMO, GZ: 436 RUS 113/829/0-1.

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Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 189–192, January–February, 2008.

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Ponomaryov, D. A decomposability criterion for elementary theories. Sib Math J 49, 152–154 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11202-008-0015-y

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