Turán densities of hypercubes

Rahil Baber

Published 2012-01-17, updated 2012-11-13Version 2

In this paper we describe a number of extensions to Razborov's semidefinite flag algebra method. We will begin by showing how to apply the method to significantly improve the upper bounds of edge and vertex Tur\'an density type results for hypercubes. We will then introduce an improvement to the method which can be applied in a more general setting, notably to 3-uniform hypergraphs, to get a new upper bound of 0.5615 for $\pi(K_4^3)$. For hypercubes we improve Thomason and Wagner's result on the upper bound of the edge Tur\'an density of a 4-cycle free subcube to 0.60318 and Chung's result on forbidding 6-cycles to 0.36577. We also show that the upper bound of the vertex Tur\'an density of $\mc{Q}_3$ can be improved to 0.76900, and that the vertex Tur\'an density of $\mc{Q}_3$ with one vertex removed is precisely 2/3.