We study elementary and universal theories of relatively free solvable groups in a group signature expanded by one predicate distinguishing primitive or annihilating systems of elements.
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Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 456-475, July-August, 2018.
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Timoshenko, E.I. Theories of Relatively Free Solvable Groups with Extra Predicate. Algebra Logic 57, 295–308 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10469-018-9501-x
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