We discuss a strategy for classifying anomalous actions through model action absorption. We use this to upgrade existing classification results for Rokhlin actions of finite groups on C$^*$-algebras, with further assuming a UHF-absorption condition, to a classification of anomalous actions on these C$^*$-algebras.

Group actions on a Smale space and the actions induced on the $\text{C}^{\ast }$-algebras associated to such a dynamical system are studied. We show that an effective action of a discrete group on a mixing Smale space produces a strongly outer action on the homoclinic algebra. We then show that for irreducible Smale spaces, the property of finite Rokhlin dimension passes from the induced action on the homoclinic algebra to the induced actions on the stable and unstable $\text{C}^{\ast }$-algebras. In each of these cases, we discuss the preservation of properties (such as finite nuclear dimension, ${\mathcal{Z}}$-stability, and classification by Elliott invariants) in the resulting crossed products.

Let $G$ be a metrizable compact group, $A$ a separable ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebra, and $\alpha :G\,\to \,\text{Aut}\left( A \right)$ a strongly continuous action. Provided that $\alpha $ satisfies the continuous Rokhlin property, we show that the property of satisfying the $\text{UCT}$ in $E$-theory passes from $A$ to the crossed product ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebra $\mathcal{A}{{\rtimes }_{\alpha }}\,G$ and the fixed point algebra ${{A}^{\alpha }}$. This extends a similar result by Gardella for $KK$-theory in the case of unital ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebras but with a shorter and less technical proof. For circle actions on separable unital ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebras with the continuous Rokhlin property, we establish a connection between the $E$-theory equivalence class of $A$ and that of its fixed point algebra ${{A}^{\alpha }}$.