On the nontrivial solvability of systems of homogeneous linear equations over $\mathbb Z$ in ZFC

Abstract

Following a recent paper by Herrlich and Tachtsis, we investigate in ZFC the following compactness question: for which unountable cardinals $\kappa$, an arbitrary nonempty system $S$ of homogeneous $\mathbb Z$-linear equations is nontrivially solvable in $\mathbb Z$ provided that each its nonempty subsystem of cardinality $<\kappa$ is nontrivially solvable in $\mathbb Z$?