Partial rigidity and q-additive functions

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A system $(X,μ, T)$ is partially rigid with constant $δ>0$ if there exists an incresing sequence $(n_k)$ such that $\displaystyle \liminf_{k \to \infty } μ(A \cap T^{-n_k}A) \geq δμ(A)$ for every measurable $A \subset X$. The partial rigidity rate is the largest constant of partial rigidity. We characterize the partial rigidity rate of subshifts arising from $q$-additive functions $\pmod M$ in terms of quantities arising from Bésineau's theorem. With this, we build a family of strongly $q$-additive functions to deduce that the collection of partial rigidity rates for substitution subshifts is dense in $[0,1]$ answering a question of Donoso, Maass and the author.