We consider zero entropy $C^{\infty }$-diffeomorphisms on compact connected $C^{\infty }$-manifolds. We introduce the notion of polynomial growth of the derivative for such diffeomorphisms, and study it for diffeomorphisms which additionally preserve a smooth measure. We show that if a manifold M admits an ergodic diffeomorphism with polynomial growth of the derivative then there exists a smooth flow with no fixed point on M. Moreover, if dim M = 2, then necessarily M = ² and the diffeomorphism is $C^{\infty }$-conjugate to a skew...

We compare self-joining and embeddability properties. In particular, we prove that a measure preserving flow ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\in ℝ}$ with T₁ ergodic is 2-fold quasi-simple (resp. 2-fold distally simple) if and only if T₁ is 2-fold quasi-simple (resp. 2-fold distally simple). We also show that the Furstenberg-Zimmer decomposition for a flow ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\in ℝ}$ with T₁ ergodic with respect to any flow factor is the same for ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\in ℝ}$ and for T₁. We give an example of a 2-fold quasi-simple flow disjoint from simple flows and whose time-one map is...

We study ergodicity of cylinder flows of the form   $T_f:T\times ℝ\to T\times ℝ$, $T_f(x,y)=(x+\alpha ,y+f\left(x\right))$, where $f:T\to ℝ$ is a measurable cocycle with zero integral. We show a new class of smooth ergodic cocycles. Let k be a natural number and let f be a function such that $D^{k}f$ is piecewise absolutely continuous (but not continuous) with zero sum of jumps. We show that if the points of discontinuity of $D^{k}f$ have some good properties, then $T_f$ is ergodic. Moreover, there exists ${\epsilon }_f>0$ such that if $v:T\to ℝ$ is a function with zero integral such that $D^{k}v$ is of bounded variation...

We prove that given a compact n-dimensional connected Riemannian manifold X and a continuous function g: X → ℝ, there exists a dense subset of the space of homeomorphisms of X such that for all T in this subset, the integral ${\int }_{X}gd\mu$, considered as a function on the space of all T-invariant Borel probability measures μ, attains its maximum on a measure supported on a periodic orbit.

It is shown that each subset of positive integers that contains 2 is realizable as the set of essential values of the multiplicity function for the Koopman operator of some weakly mixing transformation.

Studies of the physical measures for Cherry flows were initiated in Saghin and Vargas (2013). While the non-positive divergence case was resolved, the positive divergence case still lacked a complete description. Some conjectures were put forward. In this paper we make a contribution in this direction. Namely, under mild technical assumptions we solve some conjectures stated in Saghin and Vargas (2013) by providing a description of the physical measures for Cherry flows in the positive divergence...

The Stein-Weiss theorem that the distribution function of the Hilbert transform of the characteristic function of E depends only on the measure of E is generalized to the ergodic Hilbert transform.

The uniqueness theorem for the ergodic maximal operator is proved in the continous case.

It is shown that if two functions share the same uncentered (two-sided) ergodic maximal function, then they are equal almost everywhere.

We study weak mixing and double ergodicity for nonsingular actions of locally compact Polish abelian groups. We show that if T is a nonsingular action of G, then T is weakly mixing if and only if for all cocompact subgroups A of G the action of T restricted to A is weakly mixing. We show that a doubly ergodic nonsingular action is weakly mixing and construct an infinite measure-preserving flow that is weakly mixing but not doubly ergodic. We also construct an infinite measure-preserving flow whose...

We introduce the notion of W-measurable sensitivity, which extends and strictly implies canonical measurable sensitivity, a measure-theoretic version of sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This notion also implies pairwise sensitivity with respect to a large class of metrics. We show that nonsingular ergodic and conservative dynamical systems on standard spaces must be either W-measurably sensitive, or isomorphic mod 0 to a minimal uniformly rigid isometry. In the finite measure-preserving...