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Cartesian products of Sierpiński carpets do not attain their conformal dimension

Riku Anttila (University of Jyväskylä)
Tuesday 28 April 2026 14:15 – 15:15 Aud. D2 (1531-119)
Stochastics Seminar

It is a long-standing open problem whether the Sierpiński carpet attains its conformal dimension or not. While this problem remains unresolved, we prove that Cartesian products $\mathbb{S}^k$, where $\mathbb{S}$ is the Sierpiński carpet and $k \geq 2$, do not attain their conformal dimension. Our approach is based on the Sobolev spaces and energy measures on $\mathbb{S}$ - constructed by Shimizu, Kigami, and Murugan and Shimizu - together with a certain singularity result of energy measures from the theory of analysis on fractals.

Contact: Fabrice Baudoin Revised: 20.04.2026