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Boshernitzan gave a decay condition on the measure of cylinder sets that implies unique ergodicity for minimal subshifts. Interest in the properties of subshifts satisfying this condition has grown recently, due to a connection with discrete Schrödinger operators, and of particular interest is how restrictive the Boshernitzan condition is. While it implies zero topological entropy, our main theorem shows how to construct minimal subshifts satisfying the condition, and whose factor complexity grows faster than any pre-assigned subexponential rate. As an application, via a theorem of Damanik and Lenz, we show that there is no subexponentially growing sequence for which the spectra of all discrete Schrödinger operators associated with subshifts whose complexity grows faster than the given sequence have only finitely many gaps.more » « less
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Suppose $$(X,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E})$$ is a subshift, $$P_{X}(n)$$ is the word complexity function of $$X$$ , and $$\text{Aut}(X)$$ is the group of automorphisms of $$X$$ . We show that if $$P_{X}(n)=o(n^{2}/\log ^{2}n)$$ , then $$\text{Aut}(X)$$ is amenable (as a countable, discrete group). We further show that if $$P_{X}(n)=o(n^{2})$$ , then $$\text{Aut}(X)$$ can never contain a non-abelian free monoid (and, in particular, can never contain a non-abelian free subgroup). This is in contrast to recent examples, due to Salo and Schraudner, of subshifts with quadratic complexity that do contain such a monoid.more » « less
