Construction of Inverse Completion/Quotient Mapping is Injective

Theorem

Let $\struct {S, \circ}$ be a commutative semigroup which has cancellable elements.

Let $\struct {C, \circ {\restriction_C} } \subseteq \struct {S, \circ}$ be the subsemigroup of cancellable elements of $\struct {S, \circ}$, where $\circ {\restriction_C}$ denotes the restriction of $\circ$ to $C$.

Let $\struct {S \times C, \oplus}$ be the external direct product of $\struct {S, \circ}$ and $\struct {C, \circ {\restriction_C} }$, where $\oplus$ is the operation on $S \times C$ induced by $\circ$ on $S$ and $\circ {\restriction_C}$ on $C$.

Let $\boxtimes$ be the cross-relation on $S \times C$, defined as:

$\tuple {x_1, y_1} \boxtimes \tuple {x_2, y_2} \iff x_1 \circ y_2 = x_2 \circ y_1$

Let the quotient structure defined by $\boxtimes$ be:

$\struct {T', \oplus'} := \struct {\dfrac {S \times C} \boxtimes, \oplus_\boxtimes}$

Let the mapping $\psi: S \to T'$ be defined as:

$\forall x \in S: \map \psi x = \eqclass {\tuple {x \circ a, a} } \boxtimes$

Then $\psi: S \to T'$ is an injection, and does not depend on the particular element $a$ chosen.

$\ds \map \psi x$

$=$

$\ds \map \psi y$

$\ds \leadsto \ \ $

$\ds \forall a \in C: \, $

$\ds \eqclass {\tuple {x \circ a, a} } \boxtimes$

$=$

$\ds \eqclass {\tuple {y \circ a, a} } \boxtimes$

Definition of $\eqclass {\tuple {x, y} } \boxtimes$

$\ds \leadsto \ \ $

$\ds x$

$=$

$\ds y$

The result follows by the definition of injection.

$\blacksquare$

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