On the spectral type of rank one flows and Banach problem with calculus of generalized Riesz products on the real line

Abstract

It is shown that a certain class of Riesz product type measures on R is realized a spectral type of rank one flows. As a consequence, we will establish that some class of rank one flows has a singular spectrum. Some of the results presented here are even new for the Z-action. Our method is based, on one hand, on the extension of Bourgain-Klemes-Reinhold-Peyrière method, and on the other hand, on the extension of the Central Limit Theorem approach to the real line which gives a new extension of Salem-Zygmund Central Limit Theorem. We extended also a formula for Radon-Nikodym derivative between two generalized Riesz products obtained by el Abdalaoui-Nadkarni and a formula of Mahler measure of the spectral type of rank one flow but in the weak form. We further present an affirmative answer to the flow version of the Banach problem, and we discuss some issues related to flat trigonometric polynomials on the real line in connection with the famous Banach-Rhoklin problem in the spectral theory of dynamical systems.