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Self-organization is a phenomenon widely observed in physics, chemistry, and biology. Usually, it is mentioned in the context of far-from-equilibrium of dissipative open systems describing the discharge of entorpy, but the other aspect, formation of self-assembly, is sealed in the total set of stationary solutions of thermodynamically closed systems. This stationary problem is contained in a hierarchy of the mean field of many self-interacting particles, whereby the transmission of free energy is a leading factor. We can observe a unified structure of calculus of variation in these mathematical models, and obtain a guideline of the study from it, especially the total structure of stationary solutions and its roles in dynamics.
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Suzuki, T. (2008). Duality - Sealed Variation. In: Mean Field Theories and Dual Variation. Atlantis Studies in Mathematics for Engineering and Science, vol 2. Atlantis Press. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-22-0_1
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