The trivial group, denoted or
,
sometimes also called the identity group, is the unique (up to isomorphism) group
containing exactly one element
, the identity element.
Examples include the zero group (which is the singleton
set
with respect to the trivial group structure defined by the addition
), the multiplicative
group
(where
),
the point group
, and the integers modulo 1 under addition. When viewed as
a permutation group on
letters, the trivial group
consists of the single element which fixes each letter.
The trivial group is (trivially) Abelian and cyclic.
The multiplication table for is given below.
1 | |
1 | 1 |
The trivial group has the single conjugacy class and the single subgroup
.