Examples of contact mapping classes of infinite order in all dimensions
Symplectic Geometry
2021-07-08 v2
Abstract
We give examples of tight high dimensional contact manifolds admitting a contactomorphism whose powers are all smoothly isotopic but not contact-isotopic to the identity. This is a generalization of an observation in dimension 3 by Gompf, also reused by Ding and Geiges.
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@article{arxiv.1809.07762,
title = {Examples of contact mapping classes of infinite order in all dimensions},
author = {Fabio Gironella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07762},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
v2: The content of this revision corresponds to the published version, which includes in particular several overall improvements following the referee's suggestions. v1: 15 pages. Comments are welcome!