%0 Journal Article %T Local rates of Poincare recurrence for rotations and weak mixing %A JR Chazottes %A F. Durand %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X We study the lower and upper local rates of Poincare recurrence of rotations on the circle by means of symbolic dynamics. As a consequence, we show that if the lower rate of Poincare recurrence of an ergodic dynamical system (X,F,mu,T) is greater or equal to 1 mu-almost everywhere, then it is weakly mixing. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312328v1