The virtual Haken conjecture (with an appendix by Ian Agol, Daniel Groves and Jason Manning).

  • Ian Agol

    Daniel Groves University of California Berkeley Department of Mathematics 970 Evans Hall #3840 Statistics, and Computer Science Berkeley, CA, 94720-3840 University of Illinois at Chicago USA 322 Science and Engineering Of
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Abstract

We prove that cubulated hyperbolic groups are virtually special. The proof relies on results of Haglund and Wise which also imply that they are linear groups, and quasi-convex subgroups are separable. A consequence is that closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds have finite-sheeted Haken covers, which resolves the virtual Haken question of Waldhausen and Thurston's virtual fibering question. An appendix to this paper by Agol, Groves, and Manning proves a generalization of the main result of citeAGM08.

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Ian Agol, The virtual Haken conjecture (with an appendix by Ian Agol, Daniel Groves and Jason Manning).. Doc. Math. 18 (2013), pp. 1045–1087

DOI 10.4171/DM/421