Topologically 2-generated groups

Abstract

We prove that for a number of ultrahomogeneous structures $M$, including those with the free amalgamation property, the powers of the automorphism group ${\rm{Aut}}(M)^n$, $n=1,2,\ldots$, and the group $L_0({\rm{ Aut}}(M))$ of measurable functions with values in ${\rm{Aut}}(M)$, have a cyclically dense conjugacy class, in particular, are topologically 2-generated. This provides a number of new examples of groups with this property. Moreover, we will show that each of these groups is cyclically generated by a pair generating the free group.