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Abstract

We consider special flows over the rotation on the circle by an irrational $\alpha $ under roof functions of bounded variation. The roof functions, in the Lebesgue decomposition, are assumed to have a continuous singular part coming from a quasi-similar Cantor set (including the devil's staircase case). Moreover, a finite number of discontinuities is allowed. Assuming that $\alpha $ has bounded partial quotients, we prove that all such flows are weakly mixing and enjoy the weak Ratner property. Moreover, we provide a sufficient condition on the roof function for stability of Ratner's cocycle property of the resulting special flow.