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In a category with equalizers, the equalizer of ${\eta }_{TA},T{\eta }_A$ defines a functor $R$ by ${\beta }_{B}Rf=Tf{\beta }_A$. It has unit $\alpha$ and multiplication $\theta$ characterized byCancelling the monomorphisms ${\beta }_A$ reduces its unit and associativity laws to those of $T$, so $\beta :R\Rightarrow T$ is a monad morphism. The split equalizers associated with a monad show that ${\alpha }_{TA}$ is invertible. If every $T{\beta }_A$ is monic, then every $T{\alpha }_A$ is invertible, the naturality square of $\beta$ at ${\beta }_A$ is a pullback in a category, and $R$ is an idempotent monad. This monicity hypothesis is essential to this last argument; arbitrary functors need not preserve monomorphisms.

Since the full endofunctor subcategory contains $1$ and is closed under composition, $1,T^2,T^3$ all belong to it. Terminality supplies unique natural transformations $\eta :1\to T$ and $\mu :T^2\to T$. The monad unit laws compare arrows $T\to T$, both necessarily the unique endomorphism, namely the identity. The associativity law compares arrows $T^3\to T$, again necessarily equal. Every monad structure uses these two unique arrows, so $\boxed{T\text{ has a unique monad structure}}$.

For a monad $S$ with underlying functor in the subcategory, the unique $\alpha :S\to T$ is a monad morphism. Its unit and multiplication compatibility compare, respectively, arrows $1\to T$ and $S^2\to T$ and therefore follow from terminality. A $T$-algebra $a:TX\to X$ restricts to the $S$-algebra $b=a{\alpha }_X$. The unit law is immediate. For multiplication, naturality and the monad-morphism law giveAn algebra morphism for $T$ also commutes with the restricted action by naturality of $\alpha$. Keeping underlying objects and arrows gives the required functor ${\mathcal{C}}^T\to {\mathcal{C}}^S$.

Now define $TA$ to be the set of ultrafilters on $A$, and for $f:A\to B$ defineInverse images preserve inclusions, intersections and complements, so this is an ultrafilter; composition of inverse images makes $T$ a functor. There are no ultrafilters on the empty set. Every ultrafilter on a disjoint binary union chooses exactly one summand, and restriction to that summand gives an ultrafilter there; extension back is inverse to restriction. Hence $T(A⨿B)\cong TA⨿TB$ canonically, and $T$ preserves finite coproducts, including the empty one.

Let $H$ be any other finite-coproduct-preserving endofunctor. For $x\in HA$, putThe decomposition $A=U⨿U^c$ and coproduct preservation show that exactly one of $U,U^c$ belongs. Refining two subsets into the four disjoint parts $U\cap V,U\setminus V,V\setminus U,(U\cup V{)}^c$ shows that an element lying in both indicated summands lies in their intersection summand. The same refinement for $U\subseteq V$ proves upward closure. Thus ${\alpha }_A(x)$ is an ultrafilter. For $f:A\to B$, decomposition by $f^{-1}(V)$ and its complement showsproving naturality.

For uniqueness, suppose $\beta :H\to T$ is natural. Since $T1$ is a singleton, naturality on the two inclusions $1\to 2$ forces ${\beta }_2$ to send every element in each of the two $H1$ summands of $H2$ to the corresponding principal ultrafilter. Apply naturality to the characteristic map ${\chi }_U:A\to 2$. It gives $U\in {\beta }_A(x)$ precisely when $H{\chi }_U(x)$ lies in the selected summand, which by the decomposition is precisely when $x$ lies in $HU\subseteq HA$. Hence ${\beta }_A={\alpha }_A$ for every $A$. ThereforeThis proves ultrafilter functor. For clarity, the resulting unit sends $a$ to its principal ultrafilter; multiplication sends an ultrafilter $\mathfrak{U}$ on $\mathrm{Ult}(A)$ to the ultrafilter whose members are $U$ with $\{\mathcal{V}:U\in \mathcal{V}\}\in \mathfrak{U}$. Naturality and the monad laws for these formulas also follow from the terminal construction.

A monad morphism $\alpha :S\Rightarrow T$ induces a functor ${\mathcal{C}}^T\to {\mathcal{C}}^S$ between Eilenberg-Moore categories, identical on underlying objects and arrows. Its unit equation gives the restricted algebra's unit law. Naturality and the multiplication equation give $(a{\alpha }_A)S(a{\alpha }_A)=aTa{\alpha }_{TA}S{\alpha }_A=a{\mu }_A^{T}T{\alpha }_A{\alpha }_{SA}=a{\alpha }_A{\mu }_A^S$. Naturality also preserves algebra morphisms.