Solution

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For , a functor-split coequalizer pair is a parallel pair such that its image admits a split coequalizer in . In one orientation this means morphisms , and satisfy
These equations prove that is a coequalizer: if , then , so factors ; uniqueness follows from . They remain true under every functor, making a split coequalizer an absolute colimit.
To say that reflects such coequalizers means that any fork in whose image is a split coequalizer is itself a coequalizer in . This is a reflection assertion about an existing fork; it does not by itself require lifting every split fork from , or creating its splitting maps in .

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