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+/- Copyright (c) 2018 Johan Commelin. All rights reserved.
+Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE.
+Authors: Johan Commelin
+
+Introduce Group -- the category of groups.
+
+Currently only the basic setup.
+Copied from monoids.lean.
+-/
+
+import algebra.punit_instances
+import category_theory.concrete_category
+import category_theory.fully_faithful
+
+universes u v
+
+open category_theory
+
+namespace category_theory.instances
+
+/-- The category of groups and group morphisms. -/
+@[reducible] def Group : Type (u+1) := bundled group
+
+instance (G : Group) : group G := G.str
+
+instance concrete_is_group_hom :
+  concrete_category @is_group_hom :=
+⟨by introsI α ia; apply_instance,
+  by introsI α β γ ia ib ic f g hf hg; apply_instance⟩
+
+instance Group_hom_is_group_hom {G₁ G₂ : Group} (f : G₁ ⟶ G₂) :
+  is_group_hom (f : G₁ → G₂) := f.2
+
+instance : has_one Group := ⟨{ α := punit, str := infer_instance }⟩
+
+/-- The category of additive commutative groups and group morphisms. -/
+@[reducible] def AddCommGroup : Type (u+1) := bundled add_comm_group
+
+instance (A : AddCommGroup) : add_comm_group A := A.str
+
+@[reducible] def is_add_comm_group_hom {α β} [add_comm_group α] [add_comm_group β] (f : α → β) : Prop :=
+is_add_group_hom f
+
+instance concrete_is_comm_group_hom : concrete_category @is_add_comm_group_hom :=
+⟨by introsI α ia; apply_instance,
+  by introsI α β γ ia ib ic f g hf hg; apply_instance⟩
+
+instance AddCommGroup_hom_is_comm_group_hom {A₁ A₂ : AddCommGroup} (f : A₁ ⟶ A₂) :
+  is_add_comm_group_hom (f : A₁ → A₂) := f.2
+
+namespace AddCommGroup
+/-- The forgetful functor from additive commutative groups to groups. -/
+def forget_to_Group : AddCommGroup ⥤ Group :=
+{ obj := λ A₁, ⟨multiplicative A₁, infer_instance⟩,
+  map := λ A₁ A₂ f, ⟨f, multiplicative.is_group_hom f⟩ }
+
+instance : faithful (forget_to_Group) := {}
+
+instance : has_zero AddCommGroup := ⟨{ α := punit, str := infer_instance }⟩
+
+end AddCommGroup
+
+end category_theory.instances