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COMPUTABILITY, ORDERS, AND SOLVABLE GROUPS

Part of: Computability and recursion theory Special aspects of infinite or finite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

ARMAN DARBINYAN
ARMAN DARBINYAN*
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STATION, TX, MAILSTOP 3368, USA E-mail: arman.darbin@gmail.com
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Abstract

The main objective of this paper is the following two results. (1) There exists a computable bi-orderable group that does not have a computable bi-ordering; (2) there exists a bi-orderable, two-generated computably presented solvable group with undecidable word problem. Both of the groups can be found among two-generated solvable groups of derived length $3$.

(1) [a]nswers a question posed by Downey and Kurtz; (2) answers a question posed by Bludov and Glass in Kourovka Notebook.

One of the technical tools used to obtain the main results is a computational extension of an embedding theorem of B. Neumann that was studied by the author earlier. In this paper we also compliment that result and derive new corollaries that might be of independent interest.

Keywords

computable structure theorycomputable groupscomputable ordersorderable groups

MSC classification

Primary: 20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata
Secondary: 20F60: Ordered groups 03D45: Theory of numerations, effectively presented structures

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 85 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 1588 - 1598
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