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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 144 1 b ii Solution by
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The group is a vector space over a finite field, namely , because every element has order at most two. It is infinite-dimensional. The complete first-order theory of infinite-dimensional -vector spaces says, for each , that there are linearly independent vectors; the usual elimination argument for vector spaces shows that all infinite-dimensional -vector spaces are elementarily equivalent.
Every countably infinite model of this theory has dimension : finite dimension would make it finite, while uncountable dimension would make its underlying set uncountable. Any two vector spaces over the same field with the same dimension are isomorphic. Therefore is aleph-zero-categorical, as recorded by the aleph-zero-categoricity of an infinite-dimensional vector space over a finite field.
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