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By part (b), $i:P\to H_B$ is the equaliser of $ip$ and $1_{H_B}$. Full faithfulness of the Yoneda embedding writes $ip=H_b$ for a unique endomorphism $b:B\to B$. Choose an equaliser $e:A\to B$ of $b$ and $1_B$ in $\mathcal{C}$.

For each $c$, the maps $c\to A$ are precisely the maps $u:c\to B$ with $bu=u$. Thus $H_e:H_A\to H_B$ is the pointwise equaliser of $H_b$ and $1_{H_B}$, hence their equaliser in the presheaf category. Both $i$ and $H_e$ have the same universal property, so their vertices are isomorphic. This proves the representable retract criterion:

By the canonical colimit presentation of a presheaf, writewith structure maps ${\alpha }_{c,x}:H_c\to P$. Since $P$ is a 0-presentable object, the canonical mapis bijective. Every element of a set-valued colimit has a representative in some component. In particular $1_P$ is the image of a transformation $s:P\to H_c$ for some $(c,x)$, soThus $P$ is a retract of $H_c$. The representable retract criterion from part (c), using the assumed equalisers in $\mathcal{C}$, now gives $P$ is representable. Only existence of the representative of $1_P$ is needed; no stronger uniqueness-of-factorization assertion about individual colimit injections has been assumed.

An object with the displayed property is called small projective; the term 0-presentable here uses this all-small-colimits convention. In a presheaf category, every representable presheaf has this property by the Yoneda lemma and pointwise computation of colimits. Conversely the canonical colimit presentation of a presheaf shows that the identity on such an object factors through one representable, making it a retract. If the indexing category has equalizers, a representable retract is again representable by the representable retract criterion.