Exotic Dehn twists on sums of two contact 3-manifolds

Authors: Eduardo Fernandez, Juan Muñoz-Echániz

Publication date: 29 November 2022

Abstract: We exhibit the first examples of exotic contactomorphisms with infinite order as elements of the contact mapping class group. These are given by certain Dehn twists on the separating sphere in a connected sum of two closed contact 3-manifolds. The tools used to detect these combine an invariant for families of contact structures which generalises the Kronheimer-Mrowka contact invariant in monopole Floer homology, together with an h-principle for families of convex spheres in tight contact 3-manifolds. As a further application, we also exhibit some exotic 1-parametric phenomena in overtwisted contact 3-manifolds.

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