2025-09-07

1277: For Different Group Right Actions, Corresponding Group Left Actions Are Different

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description/proof of that for different group right actions, corresponding group left actions are different

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About: group

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Starting Context



Target Context


  • The reader will have a description and a proof of the proposition that for any different group right actions, the corresponding group left actions are different.

Orientation


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Main Body


1: Structured Description


Here is the rules of Structured Description.

Entities:
\(G\): \(\in \{ \text{ the groups } \}\)
\(S\): \(\in \{ \text{ the sets } \}\)
\(f_1\): \(: S \times G \to S\), \(\in \{\text{ the group right actions }\}\)
\(f_2\): \(: S \times G \to S\), \(\in \{\text{ the group right actions }\}\)
\(f'_1\): \(: G \times S \to S\), \(= \text{ the group left action that corresponds to } f_1\}\)
\(f'_2\): \(: G \times S \to S\), \(= \text{ the group left action that corresponds to } f_2\}\)
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Statements:
\(f_1 \neq f_2\)
\(\implies\)
\(f'_1 \neq f'_2\)
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2: Proof


Whole Strategy: Step 1: suppose that \(f'_1 = f'_2\) and see that \(f_1 = f_2\); Step 2: conclude the proposition.

Step 1:

Let us suppose that \(f'_1 = f'_2\).

For each \((g, s) \in G \times S\), \(f'_1 ((g, s)) = f'_2 ((g, s))\).

That means that \(f_1 ((s, g^{-1})) = f_2 ((s, g^{-1}))\).

As \((g^{-1}, s) \in G \times S\), \(f_1 ((s, {g^{-1}}^{-1})) = f_2 ((s, {g^{-1}}^{-1}))\).

That means that \(f_1 ((s, g)) = f_2 ((s, g))\).

So, after all, for each \((s, g) \in S \times G\), \(f_1 ((s, g)) = f_2 ((s, g))\), which means that \(f_1 = f_2\).

Step 2:

As the contraposition, if \(f_1 \neq f_2\), \(f'_1 \neq f'_2\).


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