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2019 Examples of nontrivial contact mapping classes for overtwisted contact manifolds in all dimensions
Fabio Gironella
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 19(3): 1207-1227 (2019). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2019.19.1207

Abstract

We construct (infinitely many) examples in all dimensions of contactomorphisms of closed overtwisted contact manifolds that are smoothly isotopic but not contact-isotopic to the identity.

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Fabio Gironella. "Examples of nontrivial contact mapping classes for overtwisted contact manifolds in all dimensions." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 19 (3) 1207 - 1227, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2019.19.1207

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Received: 18 May 2017; Revised: 1 September 2018; Accepted: 11 September 2018; Published: 2019
First available in Project Euclid: 29 May 2019

zbMATH: 07078602
MathSciNet: MR3954279
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2019.19.1207

Subjects:
Primary: 53D10 , 57R17

Keywords: contact geometry , contact mapping class , contact mapping group , contact topology , nontrivial contact mapping classes

Rights: Copyright © 2019 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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