Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 28 (2021)

Number 3

Examples of contact mapping classes of infinite order in all dimensions

Pages: 707 – 727

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2021.v28.n3.a5

Author

Fabio Gironella (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary)

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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Received 11 April 2019

Accepted 13 March 2020

Published 2 June 2021