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Given two finite groups $G,H$ with a homomorphism $\phi:G\to H$ the homomorphism can be injective, surjective or neither. This subdivides the morphisms in the category of finite groups $\mathrm{FinGr}$ effectively into three disjoint parts.

My question: Is there a category theoretical construction which can help us to characterize how $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ splits with respect to this property of its arrows?

The most important for me would be to preserve the doamin, so anything that works with $\mathrm{Hom}(G,-)$ is also ok. My approach was first to consider the under category of any finite group $G$ but I always seemed to lose the information when doing anything non trivial. The second attempt was then based on the arrow category which was a bit more fruitful since compositions of injective/surjective maps preserve these properties but now I lose the reference to the fixed domain $G$ which I can preserve in the first attempt using the under category construction.

Does anyone have an idea here?

EDIT: I identify isomorphic groups, so the homomorphisms cannot be bijective.

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  • $\begingroup$ How do you categorize the morphism $\operatorname{id}_G: G \to G$? That's an element of $\operatorname{Hom}(G, G)$. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 13 at 9:44
  • $\begingroup$ Lets add it as a fourth separate part which consists exclusively of the identity. In the end, we could put in here all isomorphisms so my edit is somewhat irrelevant. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 13 at 10:51
  • $\begingroup$ You can't get rid of automorphisms by identifying isomorphic groups. Anyway, it sounds like you're looking for some kind of (epi, mono) factorisation system. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 13 at 10:59
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry that was badly phrased. I introduced the bijective homomorphisms with domain $G$ as fourth part which then includes both Iso- and automorphisms. The injective and surjective part then meaning exclusively one or the other. $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 13 at 11:17

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