Weak mixing for reparameterized linear flows on the torus (Q4533425)

The author considers smooth time changes of irrational translation flows on the \(d\)-dimensional torus and proves interesting results on weak-mixing for residual sets of time change functions if the vector of the translation flow can be well approximated by rationals. If this is not the case then it follows by a well known result of Kolmogorov on the two-torus, and its generalization to any dimension by Herman, that any such flow is smoothly conjugate to a linear flow. More generally, in any given class of differentiability \(C^r\), optimal arithmetical conditions are given, guaranteeing the existence of \(C^r\)-residual sets of weakly mixing reparameterizations. As a consequence it is obtained that an aperiodic smooth flow on the two-dimensional torus is in general weakly mixing. Using a result communicated to the author by Herman the existence of analytic diffeomorphisms on the torus that are of rank one (i.e. there exists a sequence of Rokhlin towers whose levels generate all measurable sets) and weak-mixing is deduced.