A connection between the mixing properties of a flow and the isomorphism entering into its transformations (Q1177823)

In this paper we establish the property of mixing of all degrees for measure-preserving actions of the group \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) on a Lebesgue space that satisfy certain conditions which are formulated in terms of conjugacy (isomorphism) of the transformations forming the action. Thus, for example, if the one-parameter ergodic flow \(\{T_ t\}\), \(t\in\mathbb{R}\), is such that \[ T_ t\quad\text{is isomorphic to } T_ 1\quad\text{for all } t>0,\tag{1} \] then \(\{T_ t\}\) is mixing of all degrees. The conditions of conjugacy of the elements of an \(n\)-parameter flow considered here allow us to reduce the problem of the presence of mixing of all degrees to the question of whether mixing of all degrees in the mean holds, which is the case, as it will be shown, for weakly mixing actions of \(\mathbb{R}^ n\). In the paper we give examples of \(n\)-parameter flows that satisfy the required conjugacy conditions, and hence, by the facts proved here, are mixing of all degrees. Condition (1) is satisfied by any Bernoulli flow with finite entropy and by horocycle flows and unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces of the group \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{R})\) for \(n>2\).