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A wrong counit can be natural while both triangle identities fail

Statement refuted

For identity functors, any natural choices of unit and counit give the identity adjunction.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The two-element group $C_{2} = {1, z}$ with $z^{2} = 1$ .

[F1]

Every monoid is a one-object category, and it is a group exactly when every morphism is invertible (A monoid is a one-object category, and a group is a one-object category in which every morphism is invertible).

[F2]

An adjunction requires $(ε F) (F η) = 1_{F}$ and $(G ε) (η G) = 1_{G}$ (Adjunction by unit, counit, and the triangle identities).

Counterexample

technique · direct

1.1F1construct

Regard $C_{2}$ as a one-object category $C$ by [F1] and set $F = G = 1_{C}$ . Choose the identity element as the component of $η$ and $z$ as the component of $ε$ .

2.1step 1.1F2algebra

Both transformations are natural because $C_{2}$ is abelian, but each triangle composite is $z 1 = z \neq 1$ . Hence both identities in [F2] fail.

3.1step 2.1F2∎

Replacing $ε$ by the identity element makes both composites equal to $1$ , recovering the identity adjunction and isolating the failure in the wrong counit.

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Sources

Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context, 2nd ed., Definition 4.2.1 (standard reference, not scraped)