A note on spanoid rank

Abstract

We construct a spanoid $\mathcal{S}$ on $n$ elements with $\textsf{rank}(\mathcal{S}) \ge n^c \textsf{f-rank}(\mathcal{S})$ where $c = \log_5 3 - \log_5 2.5 \approx 0.113283$. This answers a question of Dvir-Gopi-Wigderson [DGW18].