Draw Hasse diagram as two elements have same image

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Let $S=\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\}$, $P=\{y \in \mathbb N : y \text { is a prime number}\}$, consider the map $f$ defined as follows: $$\begin{aligned} f:x\in S \rightarrow f(x) \in \wp (P) \end{aligned}$$ and $$\begin{aligned} f(x)=\{y \in P: y \mid x\} \end{aligned}$$

Let $X=\{1,4,5,8,10\}$ and $f(X)=\{\{\emptyset\}, \{2\}, \{5\}, \{2\}, \{2,5\}\}$. Let $\Sigma$ be a partial order defined as follows:

$$\begin{aligned} x\text{ }\Sigma \text{ } y \Leftrightarrow f(x) \subset f (y) \text{ or } x=y\end{aligned}$$

draw the Hasse diagram relative to $(X, \Sigma)$.

The $f$ function clearly isn't injective, because $f(4) = f(8)=\{2\}$. I am unsure how the Hasse diagram should be drawn: in this case I have a repetition, so do I have to omit one of the elements with the same image element? So is my Hasse diagram correct?

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$\Sigma$ isn't a partial order since it lacks the antisymmetry property: $$x \Sigma y \text{ and } y \Sigma x \Rightarrow x=y.$$ Here, $4 \Sigma 8$ and $8 \Sigma 4$ but $4 \neq 8$.

Edit: I just noticed that by $\subset$ you mean proper inclusion. In this case, $\Sigma$ is indeed a partial order. $4$ and $8$ are incomparable so you have to add a node labeled $8$ next to the node labeled 4 with connecting lines $1$-$8$ and $8$-$10$.

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$X$ has 5 particular elements, and nothing that goes on in the definition of $\Sigma$ can change which set $X$ is or what its elements are. The identity of $X$ is independent of what you do with it after defining it. So yes, you need to represent all of those elements in your Hasse diagram.

Also, no matter which strange functions you're using internally in the definition of $\Sigma$, what comes out of the process is just a particular subset of $X\times X$. This exact same relation could have been defined in various other ways -- at its most primitive you could just list all those pairs $(a,b)$ such that $a\mathrel\Sigma b$. Since what you're diagramming is the relation itself, rather than the irrelevant internal details of how the relation arose, you should not attempt to make the diagram encode information about $f$, except to the extent that this information influences the yer-or-no answers to "is this element related to that element"? The diagram cannot represent such information at all.