An expansion of Presburger's arithmetics by a unary function such that the first-order theory of the expansion is decidable, the expansion has an independent formula and (M,I)-Isolation Property does not hold

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It was proved in [3] that the first-order theory of < N, <, +, |p> where p>1 is a natural number and
x|p y (u)(k) (x=pu & y=kx)
is decidable. It is trivial and was observed in [4] that < N, <, +, |p> has an independent formula. I prove that in many cases, (M,I)-Isolation Property does not hold for the first-order theory of < N, <, +, |p>.



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