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Compatible weak factorization systems and model structures

Category Theory 2024-10-02 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

In this paper the concept of compatible weak factorization systems in general categories is introduced as a counterpart of compatible complete cotorsion pairs in abelian categories. We describe a method to construct model structures on general categories via two compatible weak factorization systems satisfying certain conditions, and hence generalize a very useful result by Gillespie for abelian model structures. As particular examples, we show that weak factorizations systems associated to some classical model structures (for example, the Kan-Quillen model structure on sSet\mathsf{sSet}) satisfy these conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2405.00312,
  title  = {Compatible weak factorization systems and model structures},
  author = {Zhenxing Di and Liping Li and Li Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00312},
  year   = {2024}
}

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final version, to appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra