Definition:Internal Group Direct Product/General Definition/Definition by Isomorphism

Definition
Let $\sequence {H_n} = \struct {H_1, \circ {\restriction_{H_1} } }, \ldots, \struct {H_n, \circ {\restriction_{H_n} } }$ be a (finite) sequence of subgroups of a group $\struct {G, \circ}$

where $\circ {\restriction_{H_1} }, \ldots, \circ {\restriction_{H_n} }$ are the restrictions of $\circ$ to $H_1, \ldots, H_n$ respectively.

The group $\struct {G, \circ}$ is the internal group direct product of $\sequence {H_n}$ the mapping $\ds \phi: \prod_{k \mathop = 1}^n H_k \to G$ defined as:


 * $\ds \forall k \in \set {1, 2, \ldots, n}: \forall s_k \in H_k: \map \phi {h_1, \ldots, h_n} = \prod_{k \mathop = 1}^n h_k$

is a group isomorphism from the group direct product $\struct {H_1, \circ {\restriction_{H_1} } } \times \cdots \times \struct {H_n, \circ {\restriction_{H_n} } }$ onto $\struct {G, \circ}$.

Also see

 * Equivalence of Definitions of Internal Group Direct Product