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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 18 8 i Solution by
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A monad on consists of an endofunctor and natural transformations , , satisfyingAn algebra for a monad is with , and . A morphism is an arrow with . These form the Eilenberg-Moore category .
A functor is monadic when it has a left adjoint and its comparison is an equivalence; this is the monadic adjunction convention. Some strict formulations require to be an isomorphism over the base. The distinction affects the meaning of literal limit creation, discussed in part (iii), but not the algebra construction.
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