Symmetry problems on stationary isothermic surfaces in Euclidean spaces

Abstract

Let $S$ be a smooth hypersurface properly embedded in $\mathbb R^N$ with $N \geq 3$ and consider its tubular neighborhood $\mathcal N$. We show that, if a heat flow over $\mathcal N$ with appropriate initial and boundary conditions has $S$ as a stationary isothermic surface, then $S$ must have some sort of symmetry.