There are a family of results which, in many model theory books, are proven around the same time, often as corollaries of each other. These are
For many "early" topics in model theory, there are some obvious results in algebra which admit easy proofs using this machinery. Compactness, Completeness, and Lowenheim-Skolem all come to mind. Marker even finds low-hanging applications of o-minimality! However, I can't seem to find any algebraic applications of these theorems, even though they seem just as applicable as the other concepts I've mentioned.
I'm sure there are special cases where one might like to know that a relation (say, the ordering of a group, etc.?) is not definable from the rest of the structure (here Beth's Theorem and Padoa's Method might be useful). Similarly, knowing that we can find a model of $T_1 \cup T_2$ provided there's no obvious obstruction seems eminently useful (here I have in mind the version of Robinson's theorem that doesn't rely on completeness of $T_1 \cap T_2$). I'm not so surprised that I can't come up with any applications myself (sometimes being creative is hard), but I am surprised that searching my usual references, as well as spending some time on google, hasn't turned up any results.
Does anyone have any fun applications of these theorems in algebra?
Thanks in advance ^_^
