2203.06710
Directional Ergodicity and Weak Mixing for Actions of Rd and Zd
E. Arthur Robinson Jr, Joseph Rosenblatt, Ayşe A. Şahin
correcthigh confidence
- Category
- Not specified
- Journal tier
- Strong Field
- Processed
- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
- arXiv Links
- Abstract ↗PDF ↗
Audit review
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.
Referee report (LaTeX)
\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.