On the removal lemma for linear systems over Abelian groups

In this paper we present an extension of the removal lemma to integer linear systems over abelian groups. We prove that, if the k -determinantal of an integer ( k × m ) matrix A is coprime with the order n of a group G and the number of solutions of the system A x = b with x 1 ∈ X 1 , … , x m ∈ X m is o ( n m − k ) , then we can eliminate o ( n ) elements in each set to remove all these solutions.