Free-forgetful Eilenberg-Moore adjunction

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Free-forgetful Eilenberg-Moore adjunction by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
For a monad , the free algebra functor sends to and is a left adjoint to the forgetful functor from the Eilenberg-Moore category. The transpose bijection sends an monad algebra morphism to ; its inverse sends to , where is the algebra structure. The monad and algebra laws make these inverse and natural. The adjunction unit is and the adjunction counit at is , so the induced monad has exactly the original endofunctor, unit and multiplication.

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