The Virtual Haken Conjecture
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چکیده
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 [1]. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 57M, 20F67
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