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The crude monadicity theorem in its reflexive-coequalizer form says: if , is a conservative functor, has reflexive coequalizers, and preserves them, then the Eilenberg-Moore comparison functor , for , is an equivalence of categories. Requiring all coequalizers to exist and be preserved is a stronger sufficient form.
For an algebra , form in the coequalizerThe pair is a reflexive pair with common section : both composites are the identity by the algebra unit law and the triangle identity. An arrow transposes to . The two composites and transpose to and , respectively. Indeed the latter transpose is , while by counit naturality. Thus equalizes the pair exactly when is an monad algebra morphism . The coequalizer property gives natural bijectionsThese define on arrows by uniqueness, so . Its unit has underlying arrow .
By preservation, coequalizes and in . The action is a split coequalizer of that pair: take and , with and . Thus there is a unique isomorphism with . We have . AlsoConsequently , and epimorphic cancellation gives . The adjunction unit is an monad algebra morphism; its invertible underlying arrow has an algebra-morphism inverse. Thus the unit of is an isomorphism.
For its counit , the triangle identity gives . Hence , and therefore , is an isomorphism. Since is a conservative functor, is an isomorphism too. Both unit and counit of are invertible, which proves the claimed equivalence. This proof uses only reflexive coequalizers in and split coequalizers in .
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