Special case of Beck theorem. Let be an adjoint pair its associated monad, and its associated comonad.
If preserves and reflects coequalizers of all parallel pairs in (for which coequalizers exists) and if any parallel pair mapped by into a pair having a coequalizer in has a coequalizer in , then the comparison functor is an equivalence of categories.
If preserves and reflects equalizers of all parallel pairs in (for which equalizers exists) and if any parallel pair mapped by into a pair having an equalizer in has an equalizer in , then the comparison functor is an equivalence of categories.
See also monadic functor, monadic adjunction.