Group Homomorphism - Intuition

Intuition

The purpose of defining a group homomorphism as it is, is to create functions that preserve the algebraic structure. An equivalent definition of group homomorphism is: The function h : GH is a group homomorphism if whenever we have . In other words, the group H in some sense has a similar algebraic structure as G and the homomorphism h preserves that.

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