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Mathlib.CategoryTheory.Monad.Equalizer

Special equalizers associated to a comonad #

Associated to a comonad T : C ⥤ C we have important equalizer constructions: Any coalgebra is an equalizer (in the category of coalgebras) of cofree coalgebras. Furthermore, this equalizer is coreflexive. In C, this fork diagram is a split equalizer (in particular, it is still an equalizer). This split equalizer is known as the Beck equalizer (as it features heavily in Beck's comonadicity theorem).

This file is adapted from Mathlib.CategoryTheory.Monad.Coequalizer. Please try to keep them in sync.

Show that any coalgebra is an equalizer of cofree coalgebras.

The top map in the equalizer diagram we will construct.

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    The bottom map in the equalizer diagram we will construct.

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      The fork map in the equalizer diagram we will construct.

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        Construct the Beck fork in the category of coalgebras. This fork is coreflexive as well as an equalizer.

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          The fork constructed is a limit. This shows that any coalgebra is a (coreflexive) equalizer of cofree coalgebras.

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            The Beck fork is a split equalizer.

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              This is the Beck fork. It is a split equalizer, in particular a equalizer.

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