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0,5
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Specifying a weak factorization system on a poset category is equivalent to specifying a set of morphisms that includes all identity morphisms and is closed under composition and pullback.
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T(m, n) = T(n, m) because the corresponding categories are isomorphic. T(0, n) = T(n, 0) = 1. T(1, n) = T(n, 1) = C(n+1) the (n+1)st Catalan number (A000108).
EXAMPLE
T(1, 2) = 5: the category is the total order on three objects: it has three nonidentity morphisms a, b, c satisfying the relation ba = c. Of the 8 possible sets of morphisms, {a, b} is not closed under composition and {c}, {b, c} are not closed under pullback since a is a pullback of c. The other 5 sets generate weak factorization systems.
See A092450 for an example computing weak factorization systems on a category which is not a total order.
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AUTHOR
Hugh Robinson, Mar 01 2004
EXTENSIONS
Corrected definition and more terms from Hugh Robinson, Oct 02 2011
STATUS
approved