Automorphism groups of countable structures and groups of measurable functions (Q2631890)

Let \(G\) be a topological group and let \(\mu\) be the Lebesgue measure on the interval \([0,1]\). Let \(L_0(G)\) be the topological group of all \(\mu\)-equivalence classes of \(\mu\)-measurable functions defined on \([0,1]\) with values in \(G\), taken with the pointwise multiplication and the topology of convergence in measure (a basic neighbourhood of the identity in \(L_0(G)\) is of the form \[\{f\in L_0(G): \mu\{x\in [0,1]: f(x) \notin V\}<\epsilon\},\] where \(V\) is a neighbourhood of the identity in \(G\) and \(\epsilon >0\)). In Section 3, the authors prove the converse to a result of \textit{A. Kaïchouh} and \textit{F. Le Maître} [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 47, No. 6, 996--1009 (2015; Zbl 1373.03081)]. Precisely, they show that for a Polish group \(G\) (i.e., a separable and completely metrizable topological group), if \(L_0(G)\) has ample generics, then \(G\) has ample generics. (Recall that \(G\) has ample generics if it has a comeager diagonal conjugacy class for every \(n\), i.e., for every \(n \geq 1\) the \(n\)-diagonal conjugation action of \(G\) on \(G^n\), given by \[g.(h_1,\ldots, h_n)=(gh_1g^{-1},\ldots,gh_ng^{-1}),\] has a comeager orbit.) In Section 4, they further study topological similarity classes and conjugacy classes for many groups \(\mathrm{Aut}(M)\) and \(L_0(\mathrm{Aut}(M))\), where \(M\) is a countable structure. (Recall that a tuple \[ \bar{f}=(f_1,\ldots, f_n) \] in a topological group is said to be topologically similar to a tuple \((g_1,\ldots, g_n)\) if the map sending \(f_i\mapsto g_i\) extends to a bi-continuous isomorphism between the countable topological group generated by these tuples. The topological \(n\)-similarity class of \(\bar{f}\) is then the set of all \(n\)-tuples in \(G\) that are topologically similar to it.) In particular, the authors prove the trichotomy that for every tuple \(\bar{f}\) of \(\mathrm{Aut}(M)\), where \(M\) is a countable structure such that the algebraic closures of finite sets are finite, either the countable group \(\langle \bar{f} \rangle\) is precompact, or it is discrete, or the similarity class of \(\bar{f}\) is meager. They also prove an analogous trichotomy for groups \(L_0(\mathrm{Aut}(M))\).