papers with commentary 
appendix to Yoshi Oono’s official site
Some of my old papers are listed with brief comments.
Needless to say, I was much sharper and more original before than after coming to the US in 1981.
Papers before 1981 are marked with two ＊’s.
＊＊how to estimate the size of molecules
＊＊the number of degrees of freedom matters in quenching cross-section
thermodynamics
＊＊Prigogine--Glansdorff forgot the basics of thermodynamics
＊Large Deviation and Onsager theory
＊Steady State Thermodynamics
polymer physics
＊＊Scaling and interdimensional scaling approach to self-avoiding walk
＊＊Conformation-space renormalization group formalism
＊Osmotic pressure of semidilute polymer solutions
＊Renormalization group approach to transport coefficients
phase transition and pattern formation, physics motivated PDF solvers
＊Cell-dynamical system approach to phase transition kinetics
＊Block copolymer model
＊Qualitatively accurate solver, physics motivated solver
data analysis
＊Accelerating nonmetric multidimensional scaling method
Before
Y Oono, A heuristic approach to the excluded-volume problem of a polymer, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 41, 2085-7 (1976). JPSJ 41 2085 Heuristic.pdf
Y Oono, Physical meaning of ¥delta^2 z of Glansdorff and Prigogine, Phys. Lett. 57A, 207-8 (1976). xxx
Y Oono, Period \neq 2^n implies chaos, Prog. Theor. Phys. 59, 1029-30 (1978). PTP 59 1028 Chaos.pdf
Y Oono, A heuristic approach to the Kolmogorov entropy as a disorder parameter, Prog. Theor. Phys. 60, 1944-5 (1978). PTP 60 1944 KS.pdf
Y Oono, Renormalization along the polymer chain, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 47, 683-4 (1979). JPSJ 47 683 Polymer.pdf
Y Oono and Y Takahashi, Chaos, external noise and Fredholm theory, Prog. Theor. Phys. {63}, 1804-8 (1980).
After
B Friedman, Y Oono and I Kubo, Universal behavior of Sinai billiard systems in the small-scatterer limit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 709-12 (1984). xxx
K Kitahara, Y Oono and D Jasnow, Phase separation dynamics and external force field, Mod. Phys. Lett. B 2, 861-7 (1988). xxx
N D Goldenfeld, O Martin and Y Oono, Intermediate asymptotics and renormalization group theory, J. Scientific Comp. 4, 355-72 (1989) xxx
Y Oono, Onsager's principle from large deviation point of view, Prog. Theor. Phys. 89, 973-83 (1993).
L Y Chen, N Goldenfeld, Y Oono, and G C Paquette, Selection, stability and renormalization, Physica A 204, 111-33 (1993).
Y Oono and M Paniconi, Steady state thermodynamics, Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 130, 27-44 (1998).
renormalization group theory
＊Unification of singular perturbation methods
＊Reductive RG as the essence of RG approach to differential equations
dynamical systems and chaos
＊＊Definition of chaos in terms of shifts and “Period neq 2^n implies chaos.”
＊＊Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and chaos
＊＊Artin-Mazur zeta function and Fredholm determinant
＊＊Thermodynamic formalism and the implication of temperature as the Hausdorff dimension
＊Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of Sinai billiards