Ergodicity in affine skew product toral extensions (Q760524)

We examine the dynamics of those skew product extensions in which the fibre is a torus supporting a group of automorphisms which intertwine with the given \({\mathbb{Z}}^ n\) action. The main results concern lifting ergodicity generically from the base when the original action is perturbed into a new action by a continuous affine cocycle. Extensions are indicated for other properties, such as weak-mixing and Bernoulli, and smooth variants are stated.