@InProceedings{dvir_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2019.32, author = {Dvir, Zeev and Gopi, Sivakanth and Gu, Yuzhou and Wigderson, Avi}, title = {{Spanoids - An Abstraction of Spanning Structures, and a Barrier for LCCs}}, booktitle = {10th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2019)}, pages = {32:1--32:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-095-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {124}, editor = {Blum, Avrim}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2019.32}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-101258}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2019.32}, annote = {Keywords: Locally correctable codes, spanoids, entropy, bootstrap percolation, gossip spreading, matroid, union-closed family} }