Extend strong homogenization to generalized higher-dimensional Sierpiński carpets

Establish whether the strong homogenization result for anisotropic diffusions and the weak convergence of suitably rescaled reflected diffusions on pre-Sierpiński carpets extend to generalized Sierpiński carpets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for $d\geq 3$.

Background

The paper proves strong homogenization and convergence to Brownian motion for anisotropic diffusions on the standard planar Sierpiński carpet. It explicitly raises the higher-dimensional generalization as unresolved. The authors regard the extension as plausible, but explain that the presence of additional coordinate directions makes the flow-gluing techniques used in the proof substantially more difficult.

References

It is natural to ask whether the strong Homogenization result and the convergence of the rescaled reflected diffusions on pre-Sierpiński carpets extend to generalized Sierpiński carpets in $Rd$ with $d\geq 3$. While it is quite plausible, the presence of more directions in higher dimensional spaces makes our flow-gluing techniques developed in Section \ref{sec4.3} much more difficult to carry out. We leave this question to future research.

Homogenization of anisotropic diffusion on pre-Sierpiński carpets  (2609.04936 - Cao et al., 4 Sep 2026) in Introduction