Lattice initial segments of the hyperdegrees

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Abstract: We affirm a conjecture of Sacks [1972] by showing that every countable distributive lattice is isomorphic to an initial segment of the hyperdegrees, mathcalDh. In fact, we prove that every sublattice of any hyperarithmetic lattice (and so, in particular, every countable locally finite lattice) is isomorphic to an initial segment of mathcalDh. Corollaries include the decidability of the two quantifier theory of %mathcalDh and the undecidability of its three quantifier theory. The key tool in the proof is a new lattice representation theorem that provides a notion of forcing for which we can prove a version of the fusion lemma in the hyperarithmetic setting and so the preservation of omega1CK. Somewhat surprisingly, the set theoretic analog of this forcing does not preserve omega1. On the other hand, we construct countable lattices that are not isomorphic to an initial segment of mathcalDh.












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