We demonstrate that two key theorems of Amaldi et al. (Math Methods Oper Res 69:205–223, 2009 ), which they presented with rather complicated proofs, can be more easily and cleanly established using a simple and classical property of binary matroids. Besides a simpler proof, we see that both...

We demonstrate that two key theorems of Amaldi et al. (Math Methods Oper Res 69:205–223, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2009</CitationRef>), which they presented with rather complicated proofs, can be more easily and cleanly established using a simple and classical property of binary matroids. Besides a simpler proof, we see that both...</citationref>