A Terminal Object in Grp

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Regarding to the category of groups (Grp), the trivial group is a terminal object. To show this, we must to exhibit a single morphism from any group to this trivial group.

What is a trivial group? I assume it is any group with just one element, the identity. Am I right?

What is this morphism we are looking for each group?

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The trivial group is indeed the group with only one element, which must be the identity (group axiom). The operation is fixed: just $e\ast e =e$ is the only thing we can do and is forced by the group axioms, $e^{-1}=e$ etc.

It's clear that for any group $G$ we only have one function that maps to $\{e\}$, the constant one, and it's clearly a homomorphism of groups, so a valid arrow in $\textbf{Grp}$.