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We associate via duality a dynamical system to each pair \((R_S,\xi)\), where \(R_S\) is the ring of \(S\)-integers in an \(A\)-field \(k\), and \(\xi\) is an element of \(R_S \backslash \{0\}\). These dynamical systems include the circle doubling map, certain solenoidal and toral endomorphisms, full one- and two-sided shifts on prime power alphabets, and certain algebraic cellular automata. In the arithmetic case, we show that for \(S\) finite the systems have properties close to hyperbolic systems: the growth rate of periodic points exists and the periodic points are uniformly distributed with respect to Haar measure. The dynamical zeta function is in general irrational however. For \(S\) infinite the systems exhibit a wide range of behaviour. Using Heath-Brown's work on the Artin conjecture, we exhibit examples in which \(S\) is infinite but the upper growth rate of periodic points is positive.