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2203.06710

Directional Ergodicity and Weak Mixing for Actions of Rd and Zd

E. Arthur Robinson Jr, Joseph Rosenblatt, Ayşe A. Şahin

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The paper proves the Td wall-criterion for directional ergodicity/weak mixing of Zd-actions via the unit suspension and the aperiodic spectral measure, reducing to the Rd case and then pulling back/pushing forward measures (notably Lemma 4.6 and Theorem 4.8 leading to Theorem 4.10) . The model independently derives the same criterion by a fiberwise spectral transform on L2_O(X̃), a gauge that removes the suspension cocycle, and a Fourier expansion in the torus variable, yielding precisely the affine coset condition P = π(L⊥)+π(ℓ). The only adjustment needed in the model write-up is to state the paper’s ergodicity hypothesis for T explicitly (as in Theorem 4.10); otherwise, the logic matches the paper’s result and is correct.

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\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field

\textbf{Justification:}

The submission gives a clean, spectral characterization of directional ergodicity and weak mixing for Zd-actions via the unit suspension and walls on Td. The approach in the paper is sound and well-motivated; the companion model proof provides an alternative spectral-coordinate derivation. Clarifying the ergodicity hypothesis and briefly commenting on the gauge step would improve readability. Overall, the results are correct and significant within ergodic theory of higher-rank actions.