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Andrea Ferretti
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Abelian category with enough injectives but not functorially

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an Abelian category with enough injectives. Is it always possible to make the injective embedding functorial? By this I mean that there should exist a functor $I \colon \mathcal{A} \to \mathcal{A}$ and a natural transformation $\operatorname{id} \to I$ such that for all objects $A$, the mapping $A \to I(A)$ is a monomorphism. This should be the same as this definition from the Stacks project. (edit: in a first version, I was requiring the functor to be additive, which is not what I had in mind even in the case of modules, as pointed out by Jeremy Rickard)

The Stacks project distinguishes categories with enough injectives from categories with functorial injective embeddings, so the two notions should be different. But I realized that I cannot think of an example of a category with enough injectives that does not admit functorial injective embeddings.

edit removed a motivation comment that was sparking more discussion than necessary and distracting from the main question.

Andrea Ferretti
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