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Elementary equivalence of generalized incidence rings

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In this paper, we prove that if two generalized incidence rings I(P 1 ,R 1) and I(P 2 ,R 2) are elementarily equivalent, then the corresponding ordered sets (P 1 ,R 1) and (P 2 ,R 2) are elementarily equivalent.

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Correspondence to E. I. Bunina.

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Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 37–42, 2008.

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Bunina, E.I., Dobrokhotova-Maykova, A.S. Elementary equivalence of generalized incidence rings. J Math Sci 164, 178–181 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-009-9748-9

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