Proof of `Set Cover, Hitting Set, Set Packing, Exact Cover and Set Splitting` (9th statement)

groundedproofs/Lax799700Proofs/Bridge/SetFamily.lean · lax-799700

What this proof establishes

Assuming the claims on the left, the claim on the right holds — checked by the archive's pipeline. Proof code is not displayed here.

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Description

Membership from the library's reduction of HittingSet to SetCover, which is in NP; hardness from the library's reduction out of SetCover, which is NP-hard by the catalog’s statement for it. Both are transported to the catalog's problems along the agreements.