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The class of algebraically closed p-semilattices is finitely axiomatizable

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We prove our title, and thereby establish the base for a positive solution of Albert and Burris’ problem on the finite axiomatizability of the model companion of the class of all pseudocomplemented semilattices.

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Adler, J., Rupp, R. & Schmid, J. The class of algebraically closed p-semilattices is finitely axiomatizable. Algebra Univers. 70, 287–308 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-013-0251-2

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