Isomorphism

cosmos 13th October 2017 at 5:28pm
Morphism

A Morphism that is bijective.

To prove two things are isomorphic, it's enough to find a mapping which is an isomorphism. However, to prove two things are not isomorphic you have to prove that no mapping will be a isomorphism! Because there may be too many maps to check, one most often has to find a relevant Invariant (a property invariant under a certain class of maps), that is different in the two spaces, to prove this.


Some isomorphisms are natural, and others not. Example

An isomorphism in a Category C is an arrow i:ABi:A \to B such that there exists an arrow j:BAj: B \to A such that j=i1j=i^{-1} i.e. ij=idAi \circ j = id_A and ji=idBj \circ i = id_B.

Gives Bijection for category of sets