A volume preserving flow with essential coexistence of zero and non-zero Lyapunov exponents (Q2874004)

The paper is devoted to the construction of an example of a compact smooth Riemannian manifold \(M\) of dimension five (a suspension manifold) and a \(C^\infty\) flow \(h^t\) on \(M\) such that: {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[1.] \(h^t\) preserves the Riemannian volume on \(M\); \item[2.] \(h^t\) has non-zero Lyapunov exponents (except for the exponent in the flow direction) almost everywhere on an open, dense and connected set \(U\subset M\); \item[3.] \(h^t\) restricted to \(U\) is an ergodic flow; \item[4.] the complement \(U^c\) of \(U\) has positive volume and is a union of three-dimensional invariant manifolds; \item[5.] \(h^t\) has zero Lyapunov exponents on \(U^c\); \item[6.] on each of the invariant submanifolds in \(U^c\) the flow is linear with Diophantine frequency vector.NEWLINENEWLINE\end{itemize}}