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October  2010, 4(4): 609-635. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2010.4.609

## Ratner's property and mild mixing for special flows over two-dimensional rotations

 1 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń 2 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, N. Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland

Received  February 2010 Revised  December 2010 Published  January 2011

We consider special flows over two-dimensional rotations by $(\alpha,\beta)$ on $\T^2$ and under piecewise $C^2$ roof functions $f$ satisfying von Neumann's condition $\int_{\T^2}f_x(x,y)dxdy\ne 0$ or $\int_{\T^2}f_y(x,y)dxdy\ne 0$. Such flows are shown to be always weakly mixing and never partially rigid. It is proved that while specifying to a subclass of roof functions and to ergodic rotations for which $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are of bounded partial quotients the corresponding special flows enjoy the so-called weak Ratner property. As a consequence, such flows turn out to be mildly mixing.
Citation: Krzysztof Frączek, Mariusz Lemańczyk. Ratner's property and mild mixing for special flows over two-dimensional rotations. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2010, 4 (4) : 609-635. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2010.4.609
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(2), 118 (1983), 277.  doi: 10.2307/2007030.  Google Scholar [29] V. V. Ryzhikov and J.-P. Thouvenot, Disjointness, divisibility, and quasi-simplicity of measure-preserving actions,, (Russian) Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen., 40 (2006), 85.   Google Scholar [30] J.-P. Thouvenot, Some properties and applications of joinings in ergodic theory,, Ergodic theory and its connections with harmonic analysis (Alexandria, (1993), 207.   Google Scholar [31] K. Schmidt, Dispersing cocycles and mixing flows under functions,, Fund. Math., 173 (2002), 191.  doi: 10.4064/fm173-2-6.  Google Scholar [32] D. Witte, Rigidity of some translations on homogeneous spaces,, Invent. Math., 81 (1985), 1.  doi: 10.1007/BF01388769.  Google Scholar [33] J.-Ch. Yoccoz, Centralisateurs et conjugaison différentiable des difféomorphismes du cercle,, (French) [Centralizers and differentiable conjugacy of diffeomorphisms of the circle] Petits diviseurs en dimension $1$. Astérisque No. 231, (1995), 89.   Google Scholar
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