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Write a coalgebra for a comonad as $(A,a)$ with $a:A\to GA$, ${ϵ}_{A}a=1_A$ and ${\delta }_{A}a=Gaa$. Since the Cartesian comonad $G$ preserves finite limits, the forgetful functor $U:{\mathcal{E}}_G\to \mathcal{E}$ creates them: for an underlying limit $K$ of coalgebras, the maps $K\to A_i\to G{A}_i$ induce a unique $K\to GK$ using $GK\cong {\lim }_{i}G{A}_i$. Its counit and coassociativity equations follow after every limiting projection, which jointly detect equality. The same argument makes the limiting cone universal among coalgebra cones. Thus ${\mathcal{E}}_G$ is a Cartesian category; in particular, the product structure on $A\times B$ is $a\times b$ followed by the comparison $GA\times GB\cong G(A\times B)$.

An exponential object needs more than the underlying ambient $B^A$. The cofree coalgebra functor is $R(D)=(GD,{\delta }_D)$, with adjunctionThe inverse sends $\tilde{h}$ to ${ϵ}_D\tilde{h}$; the comonad laws verify that these are inverse and that $\tilde{h}$ is a coalgebra map.

For $(A,a)$ and $(B,b)$, put $D=B^A$ and $W=(GB{)}^A$ in the ambient Cartesian closed category. Define $p,q:GD\to W$ byand by transposing the compositeto obtain $q$. Their cofree-adjoint transposes are coalgebra mapsTake their coalgebra equalizer $e:H\hookrightarrow R(D)$, which exists by the finite-limit construction.

To verify its universal property, let $h:C\to D$ transpose to $t:C\times A\to B$. Its coalgebra transpose $\tilde{h}=Ghc$ factors through $H$ exactly when $p^{♯}\tilde{h}=q^{♯}\tilde{h}$. By the cofree adjunction, this equality is equivalent to $p\tilde{h}=q\tilde{h}$. The first side is $b^{A}h$, because ${ϵ}_{D}Ghc=h$; transposing the second side gives $Gt$ composed with the product coalgebra structure on $C\times A$. The equality therefore says exactlywith the canonical product comparison understood: precisely the condition that $t$ is a coalgebra map. Thusnaturally in the coalgebra $C$. Its evaluation is ambient evaluation after ${ϵ}_{D}e\times 1_A$, and the preceding condition makes it a coalgebra map. This equalizer is the coalgebra exponential, so the category of coalgebras is cartesian closed. This Cartesian closure for a finite-limit-preserving comonad uses no subobject classifier on $\mathcal{E}$.