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Almost all combinatorial question can be reformulated as either a matching or a covering problem of a hypergraph. In this paper we survey some of the important results.
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Füredi, Z. Matchings and covers in hypergraphs. Graphs and Combinatorics 4, 115–206 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01864160
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