Does assumption* imply strong orderability?
Determine whether, for a closed contact manifold (M,\xi), the condition assumption*—namely, the existence of a strong symplectic filling by a weakly^+-monotone symplectic manifold whose symplectic homology unit is not eternal—implies that (M,\xi) is strongly orderable. Establishing this implication would show that the contact big fiber theorem proved under assumption* also follows from the framework requiring strong orderability.
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Conversely, while assumption* implies orderabability (Theorem 1.6), at the time of writing, we do not know if assumption* also implies strong orderability, and hence if our contact big fiber Theorem \ref{thm:bft} implies the contact big fiber proved in Theorem 1.4.
— Spectral selectors on strongly orderable contact manifolds and applications
(2509.12856 - Arlove, 16 Sep 2025) in Introduction, Subsection 'Contact big fiber Theorem' (discussion comparing assumption* and strong orderability)