Archimedean linearly ordered groups are Abelian
ID: archimedean-linearly-ordered-groups-are-abelian
An Archimedean ordered group with a two-sided invariant total order is commutative. If there is a least positive element, its cofinal powers exhaust the group. Otherwise each has with . To see this, choose and use if its square is below ; if not, the inequality gives . If positive satisfied , put and choose such a . Cofinality gives and . Two-sided order invariance then gives both and , a contradiction. Replacing negative elements by their inverses reduces arbitrary commutativity to the positive case.
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