On the non-equivalence of the Bernoulli and K properties in dimension four

Abstract

We study skew products where the base is a hyperbolic automorphism of $\mathbb{T}^2$, the fiber is a smooth area preserving flow on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with one fixed point (of high degeneracy) and the skewing function is a smooth non coboundary with non-zero integral. The fiber dynamics can be represented as a special flow over an irrational rotation and a roof function with one power singularity. We show that for a full measure set of rotations the corresponding skew product is $K$ and not Bernoulli. As a consequence we get a natural class of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{T}^4$ which are $K$ and not Bernoulli.