kropholler's conjecture and $3$-manifolds group

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Suppose that $G$ is a group and that $H$ is a subgroup, both finitely generated, and assume that there is a non-trivial $H$-almost invariant set $X$ with $HXH=X$. Kropholler's Conjecture asserts that $ G $ splits over a subgroup commensurable with a subgroup of $H$.

Note that the algebraic hypothesis $HXH= X $ can be reformulated in terms of strong crossings - see "Splittings of Groups and Intersection Numbers" by Peter Scott and Gadde A. Swarup.

There is a paper of M.Sageev which proves the conjecture for quasiconvex subgroups of hyperbolic groups. My question is this: is the result true for $3$-manifold groups and surface subgroups? Author :zeraoulia rafik

I would like someone to give me some explanation (link, paper,..) about this strange problem. Thank you for your replies or any comments.

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The paper of Scott and Swarup mentioned in the question cites Kropholler and Roller's ' Splittings of Poincaré duality groups'. On page 35 they write

let $ K $ be a Poincaré duality group of dimension $n-1$ which is a subgroup of a Poincaré

duality group $ G $ of dimension $n$...Kropholler and Roller defined an obstruction $sing(K)$

to splitting $ G $ over a subgroup commensurable with $ K $..they showed that $sing(K)$

vanishes if and only if there is a $ K $-Almost invariant subset $ Y $ of $ G $ such that $KYK=Y$

Taking n=3, this seems to answer your question.