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A symmetry theorem in two-phase heat conductors

Analysis of PDEs 2022-10-28 v1

Abstract

We consider the Cauchy problem for the heat diffusion equation in the whole Euclidean space consisting of two media with different constant conductivities, where initially one medium has temperature 0 and the other has temperature 1. Under the assumptions that one medium is bounded and the interface is of class C2,αC^{2,\alpha}, we show that if the interface is stationary isothermic, then it must be a sphere. The method of moving planes due to Serrin is directly utilized to prove the result.

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@article{arxiv.2210.15113,
  title  = {A symmetry theorem in two-phase heat conductors},
  author = {Hyeonbae Kang and Shigeru Sakaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.15113},
  year   = {2022}
}

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