Groups as categories

To any group G we can associate a category G that has a unique object, an arrow for each element of G, and arrow composition given by the group law in G. (See a bit more here.)

  1. Show there is a correspondence[1] between groups and one-object categories in which every arrow is invertible.
  2. Suppose G and H are groups. Show that group morphisms ϕ:G→H correspond[2] to functors Φ:G→H.
  3. Recall that a permutation representation of G is a group morphism ϕ:G→SX, where SX is the permutation group on a set X. Show that permutation representations of G correspond to functors G→Set.
  4. Suppose Ο•,ψ:Gβ†’H are group morphisms, with corresponding functors Ξ¦,Ξ¨:Gβ†’H. Show there is a natural transformation Ξ¦β‡’Ξ¨ if and only if Ο• and ψ are conjugate, i.e., there is an element h∈H such that ψ(g)=h(Ο•(g))hβˆ’1 for all g∈G.

  1. You can turn this into a bijection if you are willing to talk about isomorphism classes of groups and the like. β†©οΈŽ

  2. Following the previous footnote, you can turn this into an equivalence of certain categories. β†©οΈŽ