Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2024
We define the topological multiplicity of an invertible topological system $(X,T)$ as the minimal number k of real continuous functions
$f_1,\ldots , f_k$ such that the functions
$f_i\circ T^n$,
$n\in {\mathbb {Z}}$,
$1\leq i\leq k,$ span a dense linear vector space in the space of real continuous functions on X endowed with the supremum norm. We study some properties of topological systems with finite multiplicity. After giving some examples, we investigate the multiplicity of subshifts with linear growth complexity.