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Refinement-minimal intersecting covers

Motivation. Yesterday I was sitting idly in the train, contemplating the train network. I noticed that a lot of lines (not all) intersected, and some pairs of lines intersected in quite a few stations....
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Hypergraphs with finite matching / covering balance

Let $H=(V,E)$ be a hypergraph such that $\emptyset\notin E$. We say that $C\subseteq V$ is a (vertex) cover if for all $e \in E$ we have $C\cap e\neq \emptyset$. The minimum size that a cover can have ...
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"Lamp-switch set-up number" of $n$ [closed]

Motivation. The following has a real-life (!) inspiration from a discussion about how to connect lamps and switches in an efficient way. Question. Let $n\in\mathbb{N}$ be a positive integer and let $\{...
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Relationship between minimum vertex cover and matching width

Let $H$ be a 3-partite 3-uniform hypergraph with minimum vertex cover number $\tau(H)$ (i.e. $\tau(H)=\min\{|Q|: Q\subseteq V(H), e\cap Q\neq \emptyset \text{ for all } e\in E(H)\}$). Question: Is $\...
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Minimizing the set of multiply covered elements in a linear hypergraph

We say that a hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ is a linear hypergraph if it has the following properties: if $e_1\neq e_2\in E$ then $|e_1\cap e_2|\leq 1$, and $\bigcup E = V$. We say that $C\subseteq E$ is a ...
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Optimal pseudotransversals

A hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ consists of an non-empty set $V$ and a collection $E\subseteq {\cal P}(V)\setminus \{\emptyset\}$ of non-empty subsets of $V$. A transversal of $H$ is a set $T\subseteq V$ such ...
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Maximal expansions of strongly minimal covers of hypergraphs

Let $H = (V,E)$ be a hypergraph, that is $V$ is a set and $E \subseteq {\cal P}(V)$. We assume $\bigcup E = V$. Moreover we assume that every $e\in E$ is contained in some maximal member $e'\in E$ (...
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Strongly minimal covers

Let $H=(V,E)$ be a hypergraph, that is $V$ is a set and $E\subseteq \mathcal{P}(V)$. We say that $C\subseteq E$ is a cover of $H$ if $\bigcup C = V$. A cover $M\subseteq E$ is said to be strongly ...
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