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We prove that the category of Dedekind \(\sigma \)-complete Riesz spaces is an infinitary variety, and we provide an explicit equational axiomatization. In fact, we show that finitely many axioms suffice over the usual equational axiomatization of Riesz spaces. Our main result is that \({\mathbb {R}}\), regarded as a Dedekind \(\sigma \)-complete Riesz space, generates this category as a variety; further, we use this fact to obtain the even stronger result that \({\mathbb {R}}\) generates this category as a quasi-variety. Analogous results are established for the categories of (i) Dedekind \(\sigma \)-complete Riesz spaces with a weak order unit, (ii) Dedekind \(\sigma \)-complete lattice-ordered groups, and (iii) Dedekind \(\sigma \)-complete lattice-ordered groups with a weak order unit.
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Some of the results in this paper were originally obtained as part of the author’s M.Sc. Thesis, written at the University of Milan, Italy, under the supervision of V. Marra, to whom the author is deeply grateful. The author expresses his gratitude to Gerard J.H.M. Buskes for his help with the literature related to Theorem 6.5. Finally, the author would like to thank the anonymous referee.
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Abbadini, M. Dedekind \(\sigma \)-complete \(\ell \)-groups and Riesz spaces as varieties. Positivity 24, 1081–1100 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11117-019-00718-9
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Keywords
- Riesz space
- Vector lattice
- Lattice-ordered group
- \(\sigma \)-Completeness
- Equational classes
- Infinitary variety
- Axiomatization