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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 23 7 b Solution by
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Write the adjunction unit as and the adjunction counit as . Define the monad induced by an adjunction bywith unit . Naturality of makes a natural transformation.
The triangle identities for an adjunction give the two unit laws:For associativity, apply naturality of to the arrow in :Applying yieldsThus the induced data satisfy all the monad laws, rather than merely supplying an endofunctor and two transformations.
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