We establish the asymptotic behaviour of the partition function, the heat content, the integrated eigenvalue counting function, and, for certain points, the on-diagonal heat kernel of generalized Sierpinski carpets. For all these functions the leading term is of the form $x^{\gamma}\phi(\log x)$ for a suitable exponent $\gamma$ and $\phi$ a periodic function. We also discuss similar results for the heat content of affine nested fractals.

We define Hardy spaces of conjugate systems of temperature functions on ${\bbd R}_{+}^{n+1}$. We show that their boundary distributions are the same as the boundary distributions of the usual Hardy spaces of conjugate systems of harmonic functions.