A strict factorization system is like an orthogonal factorization system, but the factorizations are specified uniquely on the nose, rather than merely up to isomorphism.
A strict factorization system on a category comprises wide subcategories and of such that every morphism in factors as for and .
Note that a strict factorization system is not necessarily an orthogonal factorization system, since and may not contain the isomorphisms in . However, for every strict factorization system, there is a unique orthogonal factorization system containing it, given by closing under postcomposition by isomorphisms and closing under precomposition by isomorphisms (see §2.1 of Grandis (2000)).
One reason strict factorization systems are of interest is that they can be identified with distributive laws in the bicategory of spans, as shown by Rosebrugh & Wood (2002).
Ordinary orthogonal factorization systems can be similarly characterized by:
using a type of relaxed distributive law, as in Rosebrugh & Wood (2002);
using wreaths as in Lack & Street (2002);
by working in the bicategory of profunctors instead, as in Lack (2004) (see also factorization system over a subcategory); or by
using weak distributive laws, as in Böhm (2012).
Strict factorization systems were defined in:
See also:
Robert Rosebrugh, Richard J. Wood, Distributive Laws and Factorization, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 175 1–3 (2002) 327-353 [doi:10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00140-8pdf]
Stephen Lack, Ross Street, The formal theory of monads II, J. Pure Appl. Alg. 175 1–3 (2002) 243-265 [doi:10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00137-8]
Stephen Lack, Composing PROPs, Theory and Applications of Categories, 13 9 (2004) 147-163 [tac:13-09]
Gabriella Böhm, Factorization systems induced by weak distributive laws, Appl. Categ. Structures 20 3 (2012) 275-302 [doi:10.1007/s10485-010-9243-y, arXiv:1009.0732]
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