Smale space is a particular class of hyperbolic topological dynamical systems, defined by David Ruelle. The third author constructed a homology theory for Smale spaces which is based on Krieger's dimension group invariant for shifts of finite type. In this paper, we compute this homology for the one-dimensional generalized solenoids of R.F. Williams.
Smale spaces were defined by D. Ruelle to describe the properties of the basic sets of an Axiom A system for topological dynamics. One motivation for this was that the basic sets of an Axiom A system are merely topological spaces and not submanifolds. One of the most important classes of Smale spaces is shifts of finite type. For such systems, W. Krieger introduced a pair of invariants, the past and future dimension groups. These are abelian groups, but are also with an order which is an important part of their structure. The second author showed that Krieger's invariants could be extended to a homology theory for Smale spaces. In this paper, we show that the homology groups on Smale spaces (in degree zero) have a canonical order structure. This extends that of Krieger's groups for shifts of finite type.
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