Weak mixing for area preserving flows on surfaces

Abstract

Let $(\phi_t)$ be an area-preserving smooth flow on a compact, connected, orientable surface $\mathcal M$ with at least one but finitely many fixed points. Assume that $(\phi_t)$ is analytic (up to a canonical change of coordinates) in the neighborhood of each saddle fixed point. We show that the flow $(\phi_t)$ is weakly mixing on each of its (finitely many) quasi-minimal components.