Faithful representation

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In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as representation theory, a faithful representation ρ of a group G on a vector space V is a linear representation in which different elements g of G are represented by distinct linear mappings ρ(g).

In more abstract language, this means that the group homomorphism

ρ: G → GL(V)

is injective. See also faithful module.