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A geometric embedding means $f_{\ast }$ is full and faithful, equivalently that the adjunction counit $f^{\ast }{f}_{\ast }H\to H$ is invertible for every $H$. At $c$, the explicit right-adjoint formula identifies this counit withinduced by ${\tau }_c:\mathbb{C}(-,c)\to \mathbb{D}(T-,Tc)$, sending $h$ to $Th$.

If $T$ is full and faithful, every ${\tau }_c$ is an isomorphism, making all these counit components bijective and hence making $f_{\ast }$ full and faithful. Conversely, if precomposition with ${\tau }_c$ is a bijection for every $H$, then ${\tau }_c$ is invertible by the Yoneda lemma applied in the presheaf category: taking $H=\mathbb{C}(-,c)$ gives a left inverse, and injectivity for $H=\mathbb{D}(T-,Tc)$ makes it a right inverse too. Evaluating ${\tau }_c$ at $c^{\prime }$ therefore says thatis bijective for all $c,c^{\prime }$. This proves the full-faithfulness criterion for presheaf geometric embeddings: