Exercise 186Logic, sets and proofs › Sets and mapsL1Added 31 Oct 2026
Injective or surjective?
#maps#bijection
Statement
Let be defined by . Is injective? Surjective? Restrict to get a bijection.
Hint
Compare and , and ask whether is a value of .
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Solution
Not injective. although .
Not surjective. for every , so has no preimage.
A bijection. Let be the restriction . For , the equation has exactly one solution in , namely . So is bijective, with inverse .