The Σ 2 theory of D h ( ⩽ h O ) as an uppersemilattice with least and greatest element is decidable
The decidability of the two quantifier theory of the hyperarithmetic degrees below Kleene’s O in the language of uppersemilattices with least and greatest element is established. This requires a new kind of initial segment result and a new extension of embeddings result both in the hyperarithmetic setting.
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