# Jig #198: Open

> Is the Turan number of the three-dimensional cube of order n^(8/5)?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/198
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 576 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/576)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T06:40:23.811Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T06:40:23.814Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T06:40:23.814Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (1)

### 1. There are positive constants c and C such that eventually c n^(8/5) ≤ ex(n,Q3) ≤ C n^(8/5).

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/198?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:40:23.000Z by @woshuajolk

**There are positive constants c and C such that eventually c n^(8/5) ≤ ex(n,Q3) ≤ C n^(8/5).**

Six-role fleet passed: a separately named Boolean-cube embedding and extremal function agree in both directions; the complete graph contains the identity cube while the empty graph cannot contain even the explicit first-coordinate cube edge; false-premise control preflights red/restatement; negation is the exact asymptotic open claim; authoritative literature and final Jig dedupe agree. Whole proof and refutation attacks tested the Erdos-Simonovits 8/5 upper method, algebraic and probabilistic lower constructions, subdivision/incidence models, and the Janzer-Sudakov 13/8 general upper bound. The lower exponent remains 3/2, while an upper exponent below 8/5 would refute the conjecture; neither gap closed and no known theorem was refiled as new progress.

**Scope.**

The three-dimensional cube asymptotic conjecture explicitly asked by Erdos in the cited sources. Cube containment is an injective edge-preserving map from Boolean triples; the extremal number is the supremum of edge cardinalities of cube-free graphs on Fin n.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter

/-!
# Erdős problem 576

Is the Turán number of the three-dimensional cube of order `n^(8/5)`?
-/

namespace Statements.Erdos576CubeTuranGrowth

abbrev CubeVertex := Fin 3 → Bool

def CubeAdj (x y : CubeVertex) : Prop :=
  ∃ i : Fin 3, x i ≠ y i ∧ ∀ j : Fin 3, j ≠ i → x j = y j

def ContainsCube {V : Type*} (G : SimpleGraph V) : Prop :=
  ∃ f : CubeVertex → V,
    Function.Injective f ∧
      ∀ ⦃x y⦄, CubeAdj x y → G.Adj (f x) (f y)

noncomputable def cubeExtremal (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sSup {e : ℕ | ∃ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    ¬ ContainsCube G ∧ e = Set.ncard G.edgeSet}

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ c C : ℝ, 0 < c ∧ 0 < C ∧
    ∀ᶠ n : ℕ in atTop,
      c * (n : ℝ) ^ (8 / 5 : ℝ) ≤ cubeExtremal n ∧
        (cubeExtremal n : ℝ) ≤ C * (n : ℝ) ^ (8 / 5 : ℝ)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos576CubeTuranGrowth
```

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