Is there a known mathematical foundation to the concept of emergence?
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I'm researching many topics including emergence and chaos theory, and I cannot for the life of me find strictly mathematical treatments of the idea of emergence. Is there any form or field of mathematics that can predict the emergence of one equation from another, or from a set of equations? A simple analogy would be the "emergence" of a velocity equation by differentiating the position equation, and an acceleration equation from a velocity equation. More aptly, for example, is there any known way in which the Navier-Stokes equation can "emerge" from the equations of Schrödinger, Pauli or Dirac (or even the equations of QCD)? Some relatively "simple" transformation based upon, perhaps, a single parameter (ideally, maybe scale, energy, etc), that can change an equat...