Exotic iterated Dehn twists

Consider cotangent bundles of exotic spheres with their canonical symplectic structure. They admit automorphisms that preserve the part at infinity of one fiber and which are analogous to the square of a Dehn twist. Pursuing that analogy, we show that they have infinite order up to isotopy (inside t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seidel, Paul Alfred
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Mathematical Sciences Publishers 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106514
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-1591