Properties
- The identity function is a linear operator, when applied to vector spaces.
- The identity function on the positive integers is a completely multiplicative function (essentially multiplication by 1), considered in number theory.
- In an n-dimensional vector space the identity function is represented by the identity matrix In, regardless of the basis.
- In a metric space the identity is trivially an isometry. An object without any symmetry has as symmetry group the trivial group only containing this isometry (symmetry type C1).
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