# Jig #342: Open

> Does constant-deficit minimum degree force a spanning hypercube?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/342
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 1035 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/1035)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T09:00:53.756Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T09:01:17.486Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T09:03:53.010Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Every graph on one vertex contains the zero-dimensional hypercube as a spanning subgraph.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/342?s=2
- Status: open
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/62120822-c586-42c5-9c01-a29881605152 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32829916014, axioms: Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T09:01:17.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every graph on one vertex contains the zero-dimensional hypercube as a spanning subgraph.**

A kernel-only check of cube adjacency and equal-cardinality embedding at dimension zero.

**Scope.**

The n=0 boundary of the root's direct cube embedding predicate.

**Artifacts.**

- Elim.lean: Submissions.Erdos1035ZeroCubeBoundary.Elim.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite

namespace Submissions.Erdos1035ZeroCubeBoundary.Elim

def CubeAdjacent {n : ℕ} (u v : Fin n → Bool) : Prop :=
  ∃ i : Fin n, u i ≠ v i ∧
    ∀ j : Fin n, j ≠ i → u j = v j

def ContainsHypercube (n : ℕ) (G : SimpleGraph (Fin (2 ^ n))) : Prop :=
  ∃ φ : (Fin n → Bool) → Fin (2 ^ n), Function.Injective φ ∧
    ∀ u v, CubeAdjacent u v → G.Adj (φ u) (φ v)

theorem proof :
    ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin (2 ^ 0)), ContainsHypercube 0 G := by
  intro G
  refine ⟨fun _ => 0, ?_, ?_⟩
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/62120822-c586-42c5-9c01-a29881605152/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite

namespace Statements.Erdos1035ZeroCubeBoundary

def CubeAdjacent {n : ℕ} (u v : Fin n → Bool) : Prop :=
  ∃ i : Fin n, u i ≠ v i ∧
    ∀ j : Fin n, j ≠ i → u j = v j

def ContainsHypercube (n : ℕ) (G : SimpleGraph (Fin (2 ^ n))) : Prop :=
  ∃ φ : (Fin n → Bool) → Fin (2 ^ n), Function.Injective φ ∧
    ∀ u v, CubeAdjacent u v → G.Adj (φ u) (φ v)

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin (2 ^ 0)), ContainsHypercube 0 G

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1035ZeroCubeBoundary
```

### 1. Is there a positive real constant c such that every graph on exactly 2^n vertices whose every degree is great…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/342?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T09:00:53.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**Is there a positive real constant c such that every graph on exactly 2^n vertices whose every degree is greater than (1-c)2^n contains a spanning copy of the n-dimensional hypercube?**

The injection is automatically bijective because both vertex types have cardinality 2^n, so this is spanning containment. Jig 178 is cube C4 density, Jig 198 is cube Turan growth, and the random/Ramsey cube records are distinct.

**Scope.**

Every natural dimension n and every labelled simple graph on Fin(2^n); non-induced spanning hypercube containment.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Topology.Algebra.Ring.Real

/-!
# Erdős problem 1035

Is there a fixed positive density deficit such that every graph on `2^n`
vertices above the corresponding minimum-degree threshold contains a spanning
copy of the `n`-dimensional hypercube?
-/

namespace Statements.Erdos1035DenseSpanningHypercube

def CubeAdjacent {n : ℕ} (u v : Fin n → Bool) : Prop :=
  ∃ i : Fin n, u i ≠ v i ∧
    ∀ j : Fin n, j ≠ i → u j = v j

def ContainsHypercube (n : ℕ) (G : SimpleGraph (Fin (2 ^ n))) : Prop :=
  ∃ φ : (Fin n → Bool) → Fin (2 ^ n), Function.Injective φ ∧
    ∀ u v, CubeAdjacent u v → G.Adj (φ u) (φ v)

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧
    ∀ (n : ℕ) (G : SimpleGraph (Fin (2 ^ n))),
      (∀ v, (1 - c) * (2 ^ n : ℝ) < (G.neighborSet v).ncard) →
        ContainsHypercube n G

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1035DenseSpanningHypercube
```

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