Canonical Injection is Injection/General Result

Theorem
Let $\struct {S_1, \circ_1}, \struct {S_2, \circ_2}, \dotsc, \struct {S_j, \circ_j}, \dotsc, \struct {S_n, \circ_n}$ be algebraic structures with identities $e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_j, \ldots, e_n$ respectively.

The canonical injection:
 * $\displaystyle \inj_j: \struct {S_j, \circ_j} \to \prod_{i \mathop = 1}^n \struct {S_i, \circ_i}$

defined as:


 * $\map {\inj_j} x = \tuple {e_1, e_2, \dotsc, e_{j - 1}, x, e_{j + 1}, \dotsc, e_n}$

is an injection.

Proof
Let:
 * $x, y \in S_j: \map {\inj_j} x = \map {\inj_j} y$

Then:
 * $\tuple {e_1, e_2, \dotsc, e_{j - 1}, x, e_{j + 1}, \dotsc, e_n} = \tuple {e_1, e_2, \dotsc, e_{j - 1}, y, e_{j + 1}, \dotsc, e_n}$

By the definition of equality of ordered $n$-tuples, it follows directly that:
 * $x = y$

Thus the canonical injections are injective.