Conjecture that boundary Dehn twists have infinite order for general Seifert fillings

Let YY be a negatively oriented Seifert-fibered 33-manifold, let ξ\xi be a contact structure on YY, and let (M,ω)(M,\omega) be a compact symplectic filling of (Y,ξ)(Y,\xi) with b+(M)>0b^+(M)>0. Denote by τM\tau_M the boundary Dehn twist of MM.

Boundary Dehn twist conjecture. The boundary Dehn twist τM\tau_M has infinite order in the smooth mapping class group

π0(Diff(M,M)).\pi_0\bigl(\operatorname{Diff}(M,\partial M)\bigr).

This conjecture proposes removing the S1S^1-invariance assumption on the contact structure from the theorem established immediately beforehand. The theorem is known for negatively oriented Seifert-fibered rational homology 33-spheres with S1S^1-invariant contact structures; the general case remains open.

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Hokuto Konno, Jianfeng Lin, Anubhav Mukherjee and Juan Muñoz-Echániz, “The monodromy diffeomorphism of weighted singularities and Seiberg–Witten theory”, arXiv:2411.12202 (2024).

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