Solution

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Use the vector-space axioms: addition is an abelian group operation with identity zero; ; ; ; and , with . Group inverses may be expressed by , so no extra inverse symbol is needed.
Add the dimension-unbounded scheme
Over a finite field, a finite-dimensional space has finitely many Elements, while every infinite-dimensional space is infinite. Hence this scheme axiomatizes exactly the infinite underlying vector spaces requested. In this finite-field case the vector-space axiom list itself is finite; the infinitude of the additional dimension scheme is substantive.

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