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endomorphism (Definition)

Endomorphism is such morphism (morphism is another term for homomorphism) whose source and destination are the same object.

That is a morphism $f$ is endomorphism, when $\mathrm{Src}f=\mathrm{Dst}f=A$ where $A$ is some object (e.g. $A$ may be an abstract algebra). Then one can say, the object of endomorphism $f$ is $A$

In the most general case endomorphisms are encountered in category theory. As a special case of this endomorphisms are also encountered in abstract algebra.

A morphism which is both an endomorphism and an isomorphism is called automorphism.

The sets of endomorphisms and automorphisms for an object $A$ of a category are often denoted correspondingly as $\mathrm{End}(A)$ and $\mathrm{Aut}(A)$ or sometimes as $\mathrm{end}(A)$ and $\mathrm{aut}(A)$

Endomorphisms also can be considered as objects of category of intermorphisms and (if the set of morphisms of our category is preordered) also of category of pseudomorphisms.




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See Also: types of homomorphisms, morphism, category, category theory, automorphism, group homomorphism

Also defines:  endomorphism, automorphism
Keywords:  morphism, homomorphism, types of morphisms
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Cross-references: preordered, category, isomorphism, category theory, algebra, object, source, morphism
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This is version 8 of endomorphism, born on 2005-10-29, modified 2007-06-23.
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AMS MSC18A05 (Category theory; homological algebra :: General theory of categories and functors :: Definitions, generalizations)
 18A20 (Category theory; homological algebra :: General theory of categories and functors :: Epimorphisms, monomorphisms, special classes of morphisms, null morphisms)

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