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Möbius disjointness along ergodic sequences for uniquely ergodic actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2018

JOANNA KUŁAGA-PRZYMUS  and
MARIUSZ LEMAŃCZYK
JOANNA KUŁAGA-PRZYMUS
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Acadamy of Sciences, Śniadeckich 8, 00-956 Warszawa, Poland Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland email joanna.kulaga@gmail.com, mlem@mat.umk.pl
MARIUSZ LEMAŃCZYK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland email joanna.kulaga@gmail.com, mlem@mat.umk.pl
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Abstract

We show that there is an irrational rotation $Tx=x+\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ on the circle $\mathbb{T}$ and a continuous $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}:\mathbb{T}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for each (continuous) uniquely ergodic flow ${\mathcal{S}}=(S_{t})_{t\in \mathbb{R}}$ acting on a compact metric space $Y$, the automorphism $T_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D711},{\mathcal{S}}}$ acting on $(X\times Y,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}\otimes \unicode[STIX]{x1D708})$ by the formula $T_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D711},{\mathcal{S}}}(x,y)=(Tx,S_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(x)}(y))$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$ stands for the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{T}$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}$ denotes the unique ${\mathcal{S}}$-invariant measure, has the property of asymptotically orthogonal powers. This gives a class of relatively weakly mixing extensions of irrational rotations for which Sarnak’s conjecture on the Möbius disjointness holds for all uniquely ergodic models of $T_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D711},{\mathcal{S}}}$. Moreover, we obtain a class of ‘random’ ergodic sequences $(c_{n})\subset \mathbb{Z}$ such that if $\boldsymbol{\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}}$ denotes the Möbius function, then

$$\begin{eqnarray}\lim _{N\rightarrow \infty }\frac{1}{N}\mathop{\sum }_{n\leq N}g(S_{c_{n}}y)\boldsymbol{\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}}(n)=0\end{eqnarray}$$
for all (continuous) uniquely ergodic flows ${\mathcal{S}}$, all $g\in C(Y)$ and $y\in Y$.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 39 , Issue 10 , October 2019 , pp. 2793 - 2826
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© Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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