Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2011
We study the problem of lifting various mixing properties from a base automorphism T∈Aut(X,ℬ,μ) to skew products of the form Tφ,𝒮, where φ:X→G is a cocycle with values in a locally compact Abelian group G, 𝒮=(Sg)g∈G is a measurable representation of G in Aut(Y,𝒞,ν) and Tφ,𝒮 acts on the product space (X×Y,ℬ⊗𝒞,μ⊗ν) by It is also shown that whenever T is ergodic (mildly mixing, mixing) but Tφ,𝒮 is not ergodic (is not mildly mixing, not mixing), then, on a non-trivial factor 𝒜⊂𝒞 of 𝒮, the corresponding Rokhlin cocycle x↦Sφ(x) ∣𝒜 is a coboundary (a quasi-coboundary).