Definition:Canonical Injection (Abstract Algebra)/General Definition

Definition
Let $\left({S_1, \circ_1}\right), \left({S_2, \circ_2}\right), \ldots, \left({S_j, \circ_j}\right), \ldots, \left({S_n, \circ_n}\right)$ be algebraic structures with identities $e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_j, \ldots, e_n$ respectively.

Then the canonical injection $\displaystyle \operatorname{in}_j: \left({S_j, \circ_j}\right) \to \prod_{i \mathop = 1}^n \left({S_i, \circ_i}\right)$ is defined as:


 * $\operatorname{in}_j \left({x}\right) = \left({e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_{j-1}, x, e_{j+1}, \ldots, e_n}\right)$

Also see

 * Canonical Injections are Injections
 * Canonical Injections are Monomorphisms