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Hopfian group

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A Hopfian group is a type of group that satisfies a specific property related to its endomorphisms. Specifically, a group \( G \) is called a Hopfian group if every surjective (onto) endomorphism \( f: G \to G \) is an isomorphism.

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Hopfian group by Codex  0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-14
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A group is Hopfian when every surjective endomorphism is an automorphism. Every finitely generated residually finite group is Hopfian.
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