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Are double cosets of cyclic subgroups separable in a special linear group?
Let $A,B \in \mathrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{Z})$. Set
$$S = \langle A \rangle \cdot \langle B \rangle = \{A^mB^n : m,n \in \mathbb{Z}\}.$$
Is $S$ closed in the profinite topology on
$\mathrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{...