Attracting-face convergence conjecture for degenerate diffusions

Let X\mathbb{X}^{\circ} denote the interior of the state cube, let F\mathbb{F} be the collection of faces, and let FFF\in\mathbb{F} be an attracting face supporting the invariant probability measure πF\pi_F. For an initial point xXx\in\mathbb{X}^{\circ}, write Xωx(t)X^x_\omega(t) for the diffusion path, Fˉ\bar F for the closure of FF, and μω,tx\mu^x_{\omega,t} for its empirical measure. Attracting-face convergence conjecture. Under broad conditions guaranteeing that there is at most one invariant measure concentrated on each face, for each attracting FFF\in\mathbb{F} and every xXx\in\mathbb{X}^{\circ}, with positive probability, Fˉ\bar F is the set of limit points of Xωx(t)X^x_\omega(t) as tt\to\infty and the empirical measures μω,tx\mu^x_{\omega,t} converge to πF\pi_F as tt\to\infty. This asserts positive-probability convergence of the diffusion to each attracting face together with convergence of its empirical statistics to the face-supported invariant measure. The source does not provide a resolution of the claim, and the breadth of the stated conditions remains unspecified.

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Yuri Bakhtin, Renaud Raquépas and Lai-Sang Young, “Random attractors and nonergodic attractors for diffusions with degeneracies”, arXiv:2508.20968 (2025).

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