%0 Journal Article
%T Separability of double cosets and conjugacy classes in 3-manifold groups
%A Emily Hamilton
%A Henry Wilton
%A Pavel Zalesskii
%J Mathematics
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%R 10.1112/jlms/jds040
%X Let M = H^3 / \Gamma be a hyperbolic 3-manifold of finite volume. We show that if H and K are abelian subgroups of \Gamma and g is in \Gamma, then the double coset HgK is separable in \Gamma. As a consequence we prove that if M is a closed, orientable, Haken 3-manifold and the fundamental group of every hyperbolic piece of the torus decomposition of M is conjugacy separable then so is the fundamental group of M. Invoking recent work of Agol and Wise, it follows that if M is a compact, orientable 3-manifold then \pi_1(M) is conjugacy separable.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2765v2