## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### Smale spaces from self-similar graph actions

Inhyeop Yi

#### Abstract

We show that, for contracting and regular self-similar graph actions, the shift maps on limit spaces are positively expansive local homeomorphisms. From this, we find that limit solenoids of contracting and regular self-similar graph actions are Smale spaces and that the unstable Ruelle algebras of the limit solenoids are strongly Morita equivalent to the Cuntz-Pimsner algebras by Exel and Pardo if self-similar graph actions satisfy the contracting, regular, pseudo free and $G$-transitive conditions.

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math., Volume 48, Number 4 (2018), 1359-1384.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 30 September 2018

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1538272837

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/RMJ-2018-48-4-1359

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3859762

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06958783

#### Citation

Yi, Inhyeop. Smale spaces from self-similar graph actions. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 48 (2018), no. 4, 1359--1384. doi:10.1216/RMJ-2018-48-4-1359. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1538272837

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