An Injective Self-Map of a Finite Set is a Bijection
lemmaSet TheoryCombinatoricslem:injective-self-map-finite-set-bijective-2026aLet be the set of natural numbers with successor map as in that definition, let , and let be the initial segment determined by . Call a map between sets injective if implies for all . The notions finite and has elements are those of the indicated definitions.
Then the following hold.
1. (Initial segments) Every injective map is a bijection, and hence a permutation of .
2. (Finite sets) If is a nonempty finite set and is injective, then is a bijection from onto .
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