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Symplectomorphisms of exotic discs

Symplectic Geometry 2017-03-17 v1

Abstract

We construct a symplectic structure on a disc that admits a compactly supported symplectomorphism which is not smoothly isotopic to the identity. The symplectic structure has an overtwisted concave end; the construction of the symplectomorphism is based on a unitary version of the Milnor-Munkres pairing. En route, we introduce a symplectic analogue of the Gromoll filtration.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05403,
  title  = {Symplectomorphisms of exotic discs},
  author = {Roger Casals and Ailsa Keating and Ivan Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05403},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17 pages

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