Mean field approximation has been adopted to describe macroscopic phenomena from microscopic overviews. It is still in progress; fluid mechanics, gauge theory, plasma physics, quantum chemistry, mathematical oncology, non-equilibirum thermodynamics. spite of such a wide range of scientific areas that are concerned with the mean field theory, a unified study of its mathematical structure has not been discussed explicitly in the open literature. The benefit of this point of view on nonlinear problems should have significant impact on future research, as will be seen from the underlying features of self-assembly or bottom-up self-organization which is to be illustrated in a unified way. The aim of this book is to formulate the variational and hierarchical aspects of the equations that arise in the mean field theory from macroscopic profiles to microscopic principles, from dynamics to equilibrium, and from biological models to models that arise from chemistry and physics.
Author(s): Takashi Suzuki
Series: Atlantis Studies in Mathematics for Engineering and Science
Edition: 2
Publisher: Atlantis Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 450
Tags: Analysis; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Mathematical Physics; Genetics and Population Dynamics; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Chemotaxis....Pages 1-45
Time Relaxization....Pages 47-79
Toland Duality....Pages 81-110
Phenomenology....Pages 111-139
Phase Transition....Pages 141-157
Critical Phenomena of Isolated Systems....Pages 159-202
Self-interacting Fluids....Pages 203-245
Magnetic Fields....Pages 247-268
Boltzmann-Poisson Equation....Pages 269-296
Particle Kinetics....Pages 297-317
Parabolic Equations....Pages 319-347
Gauge Fields....Pages 349-410
Higher-Dimensional Blowup....Pages 411-422
Back Matter....Pages 423-444