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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2018
We establish the decidability of the ${{\rm{\Sigma }}_2}$ theory of both the arithmetic and hyperarithmetic degrees in the language of uppersemilattices, i.e., the language with ≤, 0 , and
$\sqcup$. This is achieved by using Kumabe-Slaman forcing, along with other known results, to show given finite uppersemilattices
${\cal M}$ and
${\cal N}$, where
${\cal M}$ is a subuppersemilattice of
${\cal N}$, that every embedding of
${\cal M}$ into either degree structure extends to one of
${\cal N}$ iff
${\cal N}$ is an end-extension of
${\cal M}$.