When Bousfield localizations and homotopy idempotent functors meet again

Abstract: We adopt semimodel categories to extend fundamental results related to Bousfield localizations of model categories. More specifically, we generalize Bousfield-Friedlander Theorem and Hirschhorn Localization Theorem of cellular model categories to settings where their classical formulation does not apply. We use such results to answer, in the world of semimodel categories, an open problem posed by May-Ponto about the existence of Bousfield localizations for Hurewicz and mixed type model structures.