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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2010
    • (edited Jun 22nd 2010)

    reformatted the entry group a little, expanded the Examples-section a little and then pasted in the group-related “counterexamples” from counterexamples in algebra. Mainly to indicate how I think this latter entry should eventually be used to improve the entries that it refers to.

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    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeJun 23rd 2010

    I removed the counterexample which was not about group theory (and clarified the header in counterexamples in algebra).

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    • CommentAuthorjesuslop
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2019

    Minor correction, about “The reason is that two functors…” to change that the η h\eta_h natural transformation is between the delooped version of the parallel group homomorphisms, instead of the homomorphisms themselves.

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    • CommentAuthorbezem
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2020
    Why is the inverse operation not part of the structure of a group (instead of existence of inverses as a property of a monoid)?
    For a topological group it is, and the inverse operation is required to be continuous.
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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2020

    Yes, the definition section is arguably a little lacking there, even though the article redeems itself later, down in Internalization. So I’ve fixed it along these lines.

    diff, v63, current

  6. linking to pregroup grammar

    DavidWhitten

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    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2021

    Added:

    The original article that gives a definition equivalent to the modern definition of a group is

    • Heinrich Weber, Beweis des Satzes, dass jede eigentlich primitive quadratische Form unendlich viele Primzahlen darzustellen fähig ist. Mathematische Annalen 20:3 (1882), 301–329. doi.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2022

    added pointer to

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2023

    added pointer to:

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2023

    and this pointer:

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    added pointer to:

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2023
    • (edited Feb 5th 2023)

    added historical pointer to:

    (That’s the letter that is commonly cited as the historical origin of the term “group”. But re-reading this now, it seems that this letter does not dwell on saying what a “group” is meant to be, but speaks as if author and recipient both already know of and agree on this notion?)

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  16. Add a straightforward definition of a group. The monoidal definition is opaque (despite being useful) and does not exhibit the properties of a group well.

    JJ

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  17. I made a mistake in my initial definition: the existence of a left identity + a right inverse is not sufficient to define a group. This definition now tracks with the standard one.

    JJ

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    • CommentAuthorʇɐ
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2024
    • (edited Apr 25th 2024)

    A left identity and left inverses w.r.t. it are, though, if you’re willing to bring in idempotents and other monoid terminology. :) (I agree that the two-sided definition is better, cf. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/65239/right-identity-and-right-inverse-in-a-semigroup-imply-it-is-a-group#comment154118_65261. An example of a semigroup with left identities and right inverses is the operation x∘y=yx \circ y = y, BTW.)

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