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Questions about the branch of algebra that deals with groups.

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Is SO(4) a subgroup of SU(3)?

No. There is probably a straightforward representation-theoretic argument, but I am too ignorant of the subject to give one, so here is a topological argument. If $H \subset G$ are Lie groups with $H$ …
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Monoid of continuous self-maps of (real) surfaces

Here's some sort of geometric description of maps of degree 0. I don't know how realistically you can find a generators-and-relations description of the semigroup of such maps. It is a theorem due to …
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Classifying space of semidirect product of groups

I am adding my comment as an answer. Every extension of groups $1 \to H \to G \to K \to 1$ corresponds to a fibration $$BH \to BG \to BK,$$ or a little more precisely at the space level $$EG/H \to (E …
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Injectivity of the cohomology map induced by some projection map

Ok, I will follow Fernando's advice and post an answer. I learned the computation below from the beginning of Pin(2)-equivariant Seiberg--Witten Floer homology and the triangulation conjecture. The gr …
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