Generically there is but one self homeomorphism of the Cantor set

Abstract

We describe a self-homeomorphism $R$ of the Cantor set $X$ and then show that its conjugacy class in the Polish group $H(X)$ of all homeomorphisms of $X$ forms a dense $G_{\delta }$ subset of $H(X)$. We also provide an example of a locally compact, second countable topological group which has a dense conjugacy class.