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We find necessary and sufficient conditions for two unitary linear groups over rings with involution with forms of hyperbolic rank at least 2 to be elementarily equivalent.
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Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 13–27, 2008.
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Balmasov, E.S., Bunina, E.I. Elementary equivalence of unitary linear groups over rings. J Math Sci 162, 594–604 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-009-9648-z
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