Reflexive pair

A reflexive pair is a pair $f,g:A\rightrightarrows B$ with a common splitting $r:B\to A$, so $fr=gr=1_B$.

An internal groupoid in a category is a groupoid object: its objects, arrows, source, target, identity, composition, and inversion are objects and morphisms in the ambient category and satisfy the groupoid identities diagrammatically.

If $f,g:A\rightrightarrows B$ have common splitting $r$ in an additive category, define the composite of $x,y:C\to A$ with $gx=fy$ byThe identity at $b:C\to B$ is $rb$, and the inverse of $x$ is $rfx+rgx-x$. These formulas make the reflexive pair an internal groupoid.