Examples of non-trivial contact mapping classes for overtwisted contact manifolds in all dimensions

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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