Injective Homomorphism Example

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Ok, so there is this problem that quite confuses me because the example seems too easy (at least thats what I think):

Find an example of a group homomorphism $\Phi: S_3 \rightarrow S_4$ that is injective.

I think the example is just $\Phi(\sigma)=\sigma$, this is the only example I can think about but I am not sure if it is correct. Can anyone tell me if this example is valid? If not what other examples could there be?

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Your example is (almost) right. If you concretely take $S_n$ as the permutations of $\{1,2,...,n\}$ then any $\sigma \in S_3$ can be mapped to $g(\sigma) \in S_4$ by having $g(\sigma)(4)=4,$ while for $k=1,2,3$ put $g(\sigma)(k)=\sigma(k).$