Lebesgue spectrum of countable multiplicity for conservative flows on the torus

Abstract

We study the spectral measures of conservative mixing flows on the 2 2 -torus having one degenerate singularity. We show that, for a sufficiently strong singularity, the spectrum of these flows is typically Lebesgue with infinite multiplicity.

For this, we use two main ingredients: (1) a proof of absolute continuity of the maximal spectral type for this class of non-uniformly stretching flows that have an irregular decay of correlations, (2) a geometric criterion that yields infinite Lebesgue multiplicity of the spectrum and that is well adapted to rapidly mixing flows.