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Endomorphism is such morphism (morphism is another term for homomorphism) whose source and destination are the same object.
That is a morphism is endomorphism, when where is some object (e.g. may be an abstract algebra). Then one can say, the object of endomorphism is .
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 of a category are often denoted correspondingly as and or sometimes as and .
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.
Mathematics Subject Classification
18A20 Epimorphisms, monomorphisms, special classes of morphisms, null morphisms18A05 Definitions, generalizations
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