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Claim: If a functor is a reflector, then it is a left adjoint and is right-invertible.

Proof: If F:C→DF : \C \to \D is a reflector, it is left adjoint to a fully faithful functor G:D→CG : \D \to \C. Thus, the counit ε:F∘G→id⁡D\varepsilon : F \circ G \to \id_{\D} is an isomorphism (Prop. 3.4 at the nLab). This shows that GG is a right inverse of FF.

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