Heisenberg Translation Flows

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Main Authors: Arana-Herrera, Francisco, Athreya, Jayadev, Forni, Giovanni
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author Arana-Herrera, Francisco
Athreya, Jayadev
Forni, Giovanni
author_facet Arana-Herrera, Francisco
Athreya, Jayadev
Forni, Giovanni
contents We study ergodic theoretical properties of flows on circle bundles over translation surfaces that arise via prequantization, generalizing the theory of Heisenberg nilflows to base surfaces more general than tori; these flows are among the most fundamental examples of parabolic dynamical systems with non-trivial central directions. In particular, we show that such flows are relatively mixing, i.e., they exhibit decay of correlations in the orthogonal complement of functions constant along fibers. We discuss applications of this result to the dynamics of such flows, to the ergodic theory on the corresponding space of wave functions, and, via surface of section constructions, to the study of affine skew products over interval exchange transformations, in the spirit of Furstenberg's classification program for measurable dynamical systems.
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spellingShingle Heisenberg Translation Flows
Arana-Herrera, Francisco
Athreya, Jayadev
Forni, Giovanni
Dynamical Systems
Mathematical Physics
Geometric Topology
37E35, 53D50
We study ergodic theoretical properties of flows on circle bundles over translation surfaces that arise via prequantization, generalizing the theory of Heisenberg nilflows to base surfaces more general than tori; these flows are among the most fundamental examples of parabolic dynamical systems with non-trivial central directions. In particular, we show that such flows are relatively mixing, i.e., they exhibit decay of correlations in the orthogonal complement of functions constant along fibers. We discuss applications of this result to the dynamics of such flows, to the ergodic theory on the corresponding space of wave functions, and, via surface of section constructions, to the study of affine skew products over interval exchange transformations, in the spirit of Furstenberg's classification program for measurable dynamical systems.
title Heisenberg Translation Flows
topic Dynamical Systems
Mathematical Physics
Geometric Topology
37E35, 53D50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21803