Computability, orders, and solvable groups

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 recursively presented solvable group with undecidable word problem. Both of the groups can be found among two-generated solvable groups of derived length $3$. (1) answers 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.