Multiple mixing for a class of conservative surface flows (Q5963145)

In this excellent paper, the authors introduce some notations related to the ceiling functions to state their exact results on the \textit{switchable weak Ratner property} (shortly the SWR-Property) and multiple mixing. The authors describe its joinings consequences. They give a criterion involving the Birkhoff sums of the ceiling function that guarantees that a special flow above an isometry has the SWR-property. The authors prove a sufficient condition for SWR-property in the case of special flows over an ergodic isometry. The authors study the Birkhoff sums of logarithmic like and power like functions. Under some conditions and in the case of logarithmic like singularities, the authors prove that the special flow \((T^t_{\alpha,f})_{t\in \mathbb{R}}\) has the SWR-property, where \(\alpha\in \mathbb{R}\setminus \mathbb{Q}\) and \(f\) is a ceiling function. Also, the authors show that the SWR-property is sufficient to guarantee the same \textit{finite extension joining} (FEJ) consequences as the Ratner or the weak Ratner property (WR-property). The authors prove that the SWR property for \((T^t_{\alpha,f})_{t\in \mathbb{R}}\) implies the FEJ-property. They prove that a mixing flow enjoying the SWR-property is mixing of all orders. The authors use the Ratner property to prove multiple mixing outside its original context of horocycle flows. In Appendix A, the authors prove the following theorem: Let \(\alpha\in \mathbb{R}\) be irrational of bounded type and \(f(x)= x^{\gamma}+r,\;-1 < \gamma < 0, r > 0\). Then the special flow \((T^t_{\alpha,f})_{t\in \mathbb{R}}\) defined above the circle rotation \(R_{\alpha}\) and under the ceiling function \(f\) does not have the WR-property.