The catalogue's category of finite simple groups is the of whose objects are . It includes cyclic groups of prime order and nonabelian finite simple groups. Morphisms are all between these objects, including the constant map to the identity.

This is not a category containing only isomorphisms

A homomorphism from a simple group has either trivial kernel or the whole group as kernel. Consequently, every nonconstant morphism here is injective, but it need not be surjective when the source and target differ.

For an , injectivity does imply surjectivity.