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Minimal flows and dynamical systems arising from substitutions are considered. In the case of substitutions of constant length the trace relation of the flow is calculated and is used to determine the spectrum of the dynamical system. Several methods are indicated to obtain new substitutions from given ones, leading among other things to a description of the behaviour of powers of the shift homeomorphism on the system arising from any substitution.
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Dekking, F.M. The spectrum of dynamical systems arising from substitutions of constant length. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 41, 221–239 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00534241
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