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Turán densities of hypercubes

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 Turán 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 $π(K_4^3)$. For hypercubes we improve Thomason and Wagner's result on the upper bound of the edge Turán 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 Turán density of $\mc{Q}_3$ can be improved to 0.76900, and that the vertex Turán density of $\mc{Q}_3$ with one vertex removed is precisely 2/3.