Bounded Topological Speedups

This paper explores the range of bounded speedups in the topological category. Bounded speedups represent both a strengthening of topological speedups as defined in [A 16] and a generalization of powers of a transformation. Here we show that bounded speedups preserve the structure of two classical minimal Cantor systems. Specifically, a minimal bounded speedup of an odometer is a conjugate odometer, and a minimal bounded speedup of a primitive substitution is again a primitive substitution, though it is never conjugate to the original substitution system. Further, we give bounds on the topological entropy of bounded speedups, and in special cases we compute the topological entropy of bounded speedups.