Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2015
Given a relatively prime pair of integers, $n\geq m>1$ , there is associated a topological dynamical system which we refer to as an
$n/m$ -solenoid. It is also a Smale space, as defined by David Ruelle, meaning that it has local coordinates of contracting and expanding directions. In this case, these are locally products of the real and various
$p$ -adic numbers. In the special case,
$m=2,n=3$ and for
$n>3m$ , we construct Markov partitions for such systems. The second author has developed a homology theory for Smale spaces and we compute this in these examples, using the given Markov partitions, for all values of
$n\geq m>1$ and relatively prime.