On the 3-arrow calculus for homotopy categories (Q534532)

The author constructs a class of categories, called uni-fractionable categories, which have good localisations in the following sense: every morphism in the lcoalisation is represented by a zig-zag of length \(3\); two zig-zags represent the same morphism if and only if they can be embedded in a suitable \(3\times 3\) diagram. The axioms for a uni-fractionable category require the existence of certain factorisations, but they do not require these factorisations to be functorial. The result can be applied to arbitrary Quillen model categories.