# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2018, 13: 221-250. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2018019

## On the non-equivalence of the Bernoulli and $K$ properties in dimension four

 1 Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA 2 Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago, 5734 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Dedicated to the memory of Roy Adler

Received  December 31, 2016 Revised  June 09, 2017 Published  December 2018

Fund Project: FRH: Supported by NSF grants DMS 1201326 and DMS 1500947
KV: Supported by the National Science Foundation under Award DMS 1604796.

We study skew products where the base is a hyperbolic automorphism of $\mathbb{T}^2$, the fiber is a smooth area preserving flow on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with one fixed point (of high degeneracy) and the skewing function is a smooth non coboundary with non-zero integral. The fiber dynamics can be represented as a special flow over an irrational rotation and a roof function with one power singularity. We show that for a full measure set of rotations the corresponding skew product is $K$ and not Bernoulli. As a consequence we get a natural class of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{T}^4$ which are $K$ and not Bernoulli.

Citation: Adam Kanigowski, Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Kurt Vinhage. On the non-equivalence of the Bernoulli and $K$ properties in dimension four. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2018, 13: 221-250. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2018019
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Math., 91 (1988), 105-128.  doi: 10.1007/BF01404914.  Google Scholar [31] P. C. Shields, Weak and very weak Bernoulli partitions, Monatsh. Math., 84 (1977), 133-142.  doi: 10.1007/BF01579598.  Google Scholar [32] P. C. Shields and R. Burton, A skew-product which is Bernoulli, Monatsh. Math., 86 (1978/79), 155-165.  doi: 10.1007/BF01320207.  Google Scholar [33] Ja. G. Sinai, On a weak isomorphism of transformations with invariant measure, Mat. Sb. (N.S.), 63 (1964), 23-42.   Google Scholar [34] J.-P. Thouvenot, Entropy, isomorphism and equivalence in ergodic theory, in Handbook of dynamical systems, Vol. 1A, 205-238, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2002.  Google Scholar [35] B. Weiss, The isomorphism problem in ergodic theory, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 78 (1972), 668-684.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12979-3.  Google Scholar
The set $W^f$, with base and roof
Horizontal Separation, $f$ and $\varphi$ have significant differences; the roof is hit a different number of times
Vertical Separation, $f$ and $\varphi$ have moderate differences
Breaking up $[0,N]$
Summary of development
 LB Fiber LB Fiber Entropy Smooth $\int \varphi$ Ornstein [23] N/A Yes N/A No N/A Feldman [11] No No 0 No $\not= 0$ Katok [15] No No 0 Yes $\not= 0$ Burton [8] Yes Yes Any No $\not= 0$ Kalikow [12] Yes No $> 0$ No $0$ Rudolph [30] Yes No $> 0$ Yes $0$ Theorem 1 Yes Yes 0 Yes $\not= 0$
 LB Fiber LB Fiber Entropy Smooth $\int \varphi$ Ornstein [23] N/A Yes N/A No N/A Feldman [11] No No 0 No $\not= 0$ Katok [15] No No 0 Yes $\not= 0$ Burton [8] Yes Yes Any No $\not= 0$ Kalikow [12] Yes No $> 0$ No $0$ Rudolph [30] Yes No $> 0$ Yes $0$ Theorem 1 Yes Yes 0 Yes $\not= 0$
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