Maximality obstructions for right-hook and right-cohook factorizations #
A selected full-source-support component through a word longer than the complete hook must have an incoming boundary edge. At the hook endpoint, path transfer contradicts maximality directly. At the inherited source endpoint, factorization alignment transfers that edge through the second component and forces the first component to occupy two incompatible adjacent positions.
A component pair selected from a right-hook factorization cannot make the first component cover the complete hook inside a strictly longer word.
A single component pair contributing nontrivially to the canonical right-hook component already forces one of the two ambient factor maps to split. In particular, the composite of the ambient maps need not equal the hook map; this is the form used after expanding a factorization through a finite direct sum of string modules.
Every factorization of the canonical right-hook projection through a literal string module has a split first factor or a split second factor.
A component pair selected from a right-cohook factorization cannot make the second component cover the complete cohook inside a strictly longer word.
A single component pair contributing nontrivially to the canonical right-cohook component already forces one of the two ambient factor maps to split. This is the direct-sum-ready form of cohook maximality.
Every factorization of the canonical right-cohook inclusion through a literal string module has a split first factor or a split second factor.