Multiple mixing for a class of conservative surface flows

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: Arnol'd and Kochergin mixing conservative flows on surfaces stand as the main and almost only natural class of mixing transformations for which higher order mixing has not been established, nor disproved. Under suitable arithmetic conditions on their unique rotation vector, of full Lebesgue measure in the first case and of full Hausdorff dimension in the second, we show that these flows are mixing of any order. For this, we show that they display a generalization of the so called Ratner property on slow divergence of nearby orbits, that implies strong restrictions on their joinings, that in turn yield higher order mixing. This is the first case in which the Ratner property is used to prove multiple mixing outside its original context of horocycle flows and we expect our approach will have further applications.

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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.

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