Classes of Structures with no Intermediate Isomorphism Problems

We say that a theory T is intermediate under effective reducibility if the isomorphism problems among its computable models is neither hyperarithmetic nor on top under effective reducibility. We prove that if an infinitary sentence T is uniformly effectively dense, a property we define in the paper, then no extension of it is intermediate, at least when relativized to every oracle on a cone. As an application we show that no infinitary sentence whose models are all linear orderings is intermediate under effective reducibility relative to every oracle on a cone.