module Cat.Functor.Adjoint.Reflective where

Reflective subcategories🔗

Occasionally, full subcategory inclusions (hence fully faithful functors — like the inclusion of abelian groups into the category of all groups, or the inclusion participate in an adjunction

When this is the case, we refer to the left adjoint functor as the reflector, and exhibits as a reflective subcategory of Reflective subcategory inclusions are of particular importance because they are monadic functors: They exhibit as the category of algebras for an (idempotent) monad on

is-reflective : F  G  Type _
is-reflective {G = G} adj = is-fully-faithful G

The first thing we will prove is that the counit map of a reflexive subcategory inclusion is invertible. Luckily, we have developed enough general theory to make this almost immediate:

  • is full, so the counit must be a split monomorphism.
  • is faithful, so the counit must be a epimorphism.
  • Every morphism that is simultaneously split monic and epic is invertible.
module
  _ {C : Precategory o } {D : Precategory o' ℓ'} {F : Functor C D} {G : Functor D C}
    (adj : F  G) (g-ff : is-reflective adj)
  where
  private
    module DD = Cat.Reasoning Cat[ D , D ]
    module C = Cat.Reasoning C
    module D = Cat.Reasoning D
    module F = Func F
    module G = Func G
    module GF = Func (G F∘ F)
    module FG = Func (F F∘ G)
    module g-ff {x} {y} = Equiv (_ , g-ff {x} {y})
  open _⊣_ adj

  is-reflective→counit-is-invertible :  {o}  D.is-invertible (ε o)
  is-reflective→counit-is-invertible {o} =
    D.split-monic+epic→invertible
      (right-full→counit-split-monic adj (ff→full {F = G} g-ff))
      (right-faithful→counit-epic adj (ff→faithful {F = G} g-ff))

We can now prove that the adjunction is monadic.

is-reflective→is-monadic
  :  {F : Functor C D} {G : Functor D C}
   (adj : F  G)  is-reflective adj  is-monadic adj
is-reflective→is-monadic {C = C} {D = D} {F = F} {G} adj g-ff = eqv where

It suffices to show that the comparison functor is fully faithful and split essentially surjective. For full faithfulness, observe that it’s always faithful; The fullness comes from the assumption that is ff.

  comp-ff : is-fully-faithful Comp
  comp-ff {x} {y} = is-iso→is-equiv isom where
    open is-iso
    isom : is-iso _
    isom .inv alg = equiv→inverse g-ff (alg .hom)
    isom .rinv x = ext (equiv→counit g-ff _)
    isom .linv x = equiv→unit g-ff _

To show that the comparison functor is split essentially surjective, suppose we have an object admitting the structure of an We will show that as — note that admits a canonical (free) algebra structure. The algebra map provides an algebra morphism from and the morphism is can be taken to be adjunction unit

The crucial lemma in establishing that these are inverses is that which follows because both of those morphisms are right inverses to which is an isomorphism because is.

  comp-seso : is-split-eso Comp
  comp-seso (ob , alg) = F.₀ ob , isom where
    Fo→o : Algebra-hom (L∘R adj) (Comp.₀ (F.₀ ob)) (ob , alg)
    Fo→o .hom = alg .ν
    Fo→o .preserves = sym (alg .ν-mult)

    o→Fo : Algebra-hom (L∘R adj) (ob , alg) (Comp.₀ (F.₀ ob))
    o→Fo .hom = unit.η _
    o→Fo .preserves =
        unit.is-natural _ _ _
       ap₂ C._∘_ refl (η-comonad-commute adj g-ff)
       sym (G.F-∘ _ _)
       ap G.₁ (sym (F.F-∘ _ _) ·· ap F.₁ (alg .ν-unit) ·· F.F-id)
       sym (ap₂ C._∘_ refl (sym (η-comonad-commute adj g-ff))  zag  sym G.F-id)

    isom : Comp.₀ (F.₀ ob) EM.≅ (ob , alg)
    isom = EM.make-iso Fo→o o→Fo
      (ext (alg .ν-unit))
      (ext (
          unit.is-natural _ _ _
        ·· ap₂ C._∘_ refl (η-comonad-commute adj g-ff)
        ·· sym (G.F-∘ _ _)
        ·· ap G.₁ (sym (F.F-∘ _ _) ·· ap F.₁ (alg .ν-unit) ·· F.F-id)
        ·· G.F-id))

  eqv : is-equivalence Comp
  eqv = ff+split-eso→is-equivalence comp-ff comp-seso

Constructing reflective subcategories🔗

Earlier, we saw that any reflective subcategory has an invertible counit. We will now prove the converse: if the counit of an adjunction is invertible, then the left adjoint is a reflector.

Again, the sea has risen to meet us:

If the counit is invertible, then it is clearly both split monic and epic, and thus the corresponding right adjoint must be fully faithful.

  is-counit-iso→is-reflective : is-invertibleⁿ counit  is-reflective adj
  is-counit-iso→is-reflective counit-iso =
    full+faithful→ff G
      G-full
      G-faithful
    where
      G-full : is-full G
      G-full =
        counit-split-monic→right-full adj $
        D.invertible→to-split-monic $
        is-invertibleⁿ→is-invertible counit-iso _

      G-faithful : is-faithful G
      G-faithful =
        counit-epic→right-faithful adj $
        D.invertible→epic $
        is-invertibleⁿ→is-invertible counit-iso _

Furthermore, if we have any natural isomorphism then the left adjoint is a reflector! To show this, we will construct an inverse to the counit; our previous result will then ensure that is fully faithful.

To begin, recall that isos have the 2-out-of-3 property, so it suffices to show that is invertible. Next, note that we can transfer the comonad structure on onto a comonad structure on by repeatedly composing with this yields a natural transformation that is a right inverse to

Finally, all natural transformations commute with one another, so is also a right inverse, and is invertible.

  FG-iso→is-reflective : (F F∘ G) ≅ⁿ Id  is-reflective adj
  FG-iso→is-reflective α =
    is-counit-iso→is-reflective $
    [D,D].invertible-cancell
      ([D,D].iso→invertible (α [D,D].Iso⁻¹))
      ([D,D].make-invertible δ right-ident right-ident⁻¹)
    where
      module α = Isoⁿ α

      δ : Id {C = D} => Id
      δ .η x = α.to .η x D.∘ α.to .η (F.F₀ (G.₀ x)) D.∘ F.₁ (unit.η (G.₀ x)) D.∘ α.from .η x
      δ .is-natural x y f =
          D.extendr (D.extendr (D.extendr (α.from .is-natural _ _ _)))
         D.pushl (D.pushr (D.pushr (F.weave (unit .is-natural _ _ _))))
         D.pushl (D.pushr (α.to .is-natural _ _ _))
         D.pushl (α.to .is-natural _ _ _)

      right-ident : (counit ∘nt α.from) ∘nt δ  idnt
      right-ident = ext λ x 
          D.cancel-inner (α.invr ηₚ _)
         D.pulll (sym $ α.to .is-natural _ _ _)
         D.cancel-inner (F.annihilate zag)
         α.invl ηₚ _

      right-ident⁻¹ : δ ∘nt (counit ∘nt α.from)  idnt
      right-ident⁻¹ = id-nat-commute δ (counit ∘nt α.from)  right-ident