Examples of contact mapping classes of infinite order in all dimensions
arXiv:1809.07762 · doi:10.4310/MRL.2021.v28.n3.a5
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.
arXiv commentv2: 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!