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We study minimal symbolic dynamical systems which are orbit closures of Toeplitz sequences. We construct 0–1 subshifts of this type for which the set of ergodic invariant measures has any given finite cardinality, is countably infinite or has cardinality of the continuum.
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Williams, S. Toeplitz minimal flows which are not uniquely ergodic. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 67, 95–107 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00534085
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