%0 Journal Article %T Heaviness in Symbolic Dynamics: Substitution and Sturmian Systems %A David Ralston %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X Heaviness refers to a sequence of partial sums maintaining a certain lower bound and was recently introduced and studied in "Heaviness: and Extension of a Lemma of Y. Peres." After a review of basic properties to familiarize the reader with the ideas of heaviness, general principles of heaviness in symbolic dynamics are introduced. The classical Morse sequence is used to study a specific example of heaviness in a system with nontrivial rational eigenvalues. To contrast, Sturmian sequences are examined, including a new condition for a sequence to be Sturmian. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.4003v1