Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2002 / iii / Paper 20 / 6 / i / Solution

Write the adjunction as a natural bijection ${\alpha }_{C,D}:\mathcal{D}(FC,D)\to \mathcal{C}(C,GD)$. The adjunction unit and adjunction counit are defined byNaturality of $\alpha$ implies $GF(u){\eta }_C={\eta }_{C^{\prime }}u$ for $u:C\to C^{\prime }$ and $v{\epsilon }_D={\epsilon }_{D^{\prime }}FG(v)$ for $v:D\to D^{\prime }$, so these are natural transformations $1_{\mathcal{C}}\to GF$ and $FG\to 1_{\mathcal{D}}$. More explicitly, naturality at $f:FC\to D$ and $g:C\to GD$ gives the two transpose formulasThese formulas will also prove the triangle identities for an adjunction.