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Mutliple mixing and disjointness for time changes of bounded-type Heisenberg nilflows

Dynamical Systems 2018-11-01 v1

Abstract

We study time changes of bounded type Heisenberg nilflows (ϕt)(\phi_t) acting on the Heisenberg nilmanifold MM. We show that for every positive τWs(M)\tau\in W^s(M), s > 7/2s~>~7/2, every non-trivial time change (ϕtτ)(\phi_t^{\tau}) enjoys the Ratner property. As a consequence every mixing time change is mixing of all orders. Moreover we show that for every τWs(M)\tau\in W^s(M), s>9/2s>9/2 and every p,qNp,q\in \mathbb{N}, pqp\neq q, (ϕptτ)(\phi_{pt}^\tau) and (ϕqtτ)(\phi_{qt}^\tau) are disjoint. As a consequence Sarnak's Conjecture on M\"obius disjointness holds for all such time changes.

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@article{arxiv.1810.13319,
  title  = {Mutliple mixing and disjointness for time changes of bounded-type Heisenberg nilflows},
  author = {Giovanni Forni and Adam Kanigowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.13319},
  year   = {2018}
}