Minimal ensembles without maximal entropy measures (Q1239286)

There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in the consideration of invariant measures for compact dynamical systems for which the measure theoretic entropy is equal to the topological entropy: measures with maximal entropy. In this paper the author constructs a compact minimal dynamical system with topological entropy equal to 1 and which has no measure with maximal entropy. The construction is a generalization of a construction described in section 27 of the lecture notes ``Ergodic Theory in Compact Spaces'' by \textit{M. Denker}, \textit{C.Grillenberger}, \textit{K.Sigmund} [Lecture Notes Math. 527 (1976; Zbl 0328.28008)].