American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2012, 6(2): 275-285. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2012.6.275

Spectral analysis of time changes of horocycle flows

 1 Facultad de Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile

Received  February 2012 Published  August 2012

We prove (under the condition of A. G. Kushnirenko) that all time changes of the horocycle flow have purely absolutely continuous spectrum in the orthocomplement of the constant functions. This provides an answer to a question of A. Katok and J.-P. Thouvenot on the spectral nature of time changes of horocycle flows. Our proofs rely on positive commutator methods for self-adjoint operators.
Citation: Rafael Tiedra De Aldecoa. Spectral analysis of time changes of horocycle flows. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2012, 6 (2) : 275-285. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2012.6.275
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