Comparison-adjunction unit criterion

ID: comparison-adjunction-unit-criterion

For inducing , the Eilenberg-Moore comparison functor has a left adjoint exactly when every algebra has a coequalizer of . Transposition identifies maps equalizing this pair with monad algebra morphisms , proving both directions of the criterion. The unit is and satisfies . In the base category, is a split coequalizer of , split by and . Consequently is invertible exactly when is also a coequalizer. The unit is invertible everywhere precisely when preserves all these specified coequalizers; preservation of arbitrary coequalizers is not required.

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