We show that a reflective/coreflective pair of full subcategories satisfies a ``maximal-normal''-type equivalence if and only if it is an associated pair in the sense of Kelly and Lawvere.
Keywords: reflective and coreflective subcategories, equivalent categories, associated pairs of subcategories
2000 MSC: Primary 18A40; Secondary 46L55, 46L89
Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 25, 2011, No. 20, pp 533-536.
Published 2011-12-18.
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