English

Residual finiteness, QCERF, and fillings of hyperbolic groups

Group Theory 2014-11-11 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that if every hyperbolic group is residually finite, then every quasi-convex subgroup of every hyperbolic group is separable. The main tool is relatively hyperbolic Dehn filling.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.0709,
  title  = {Residual finiteness, QCERF, and fillings of hyperbolic groups},
  author = {Ian Agol and Daniel Groves and Jason Fox Manning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0709},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

(v1) 22 pages, 2 figures. (v2) 24 pages, 2 figures. An error in the proof and statement of the main technical lemma was corrected, and some other small corrections and clarifications were made