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On mild mixing of special flows over irrational rotations under piecewise smooth functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2006

K. FRĄCZEK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland (e-mail: fraczek@mat.uni.torun.pl, mlem@mat.uni.torun.pl)
M. LEMAŃCZYK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland (e-mail: fraczek@mat.uni.torun.pl, mlem@mat.uni.torun.pl)
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It is proved that all special flows over a rotation by an irrational $\alpha$ with bounded partial quotients and under f which is piecewise absolutely continuous with a non-zero sum of jumps are mildly mixing. Such flows are also shown to enjoy a condition that emulates the Ratner condition introduced in M. Ratner (Horocycle flows, joinings and rigidity of products. Ann. of Math.118 (1983), 277–313). As a consequence we construct a smooth vector-field on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with one singularity point for which the corresponding flow $(\varphi_t)_{t\in\mathbb{R}}$ preserves a smooth measure, its set of ergodic components consists of a family of periodic orbits and one component of positive measure on which $(\varphi_t)_{t\in\mathbb{R}}$ is mildly mixing and is spectrally disjoint from all mixing flows.

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2006 Cambridge University Press