Failure or validity of Gaussian lower tails in dimensions three and higher

Determine whether the Gaussian lower-tail estimate established for coordinate-periodic, $2\times2$ uniformly elliptic systems driven by fractional Brownian motion in Young’s regime fails in dimension three and higher.

Background

Theorem D proves that every coordinate-periodic, 2×22\times2 uniformly elliptic system has a Gaussian lower tail in Young’s regime H∈(1/2,1)H\in(1/2,1). This result contrasts with the paper’s radially periodic counterexamples, which have a lighter (2H+1)(2H+1)-Weibull upper tail.

The authors explicitly indicate that the two-dimensional periodic result may not extend to higher dimensions. Whether an analogous Gaussian lower-tail theorem remains valid, or instead fails, for periodic uniformly elliptic systems in dimension three or higher is left unresolved.

References

It is plausible that Theorem D fails in dimension three and higher.

— Optimal Tail Estimates for Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion  (2610.06152 - Boedihardjo et al., 5 Oct 2026) in Section 1, subsection “Optimality of the lower estimate in Young's regime,” immediately after Theorem D