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Motivated by the famous Waddingtons epigenetic landscape metaphor in developmental biology, biophysicists and applied mathematicians made different proposals to realize this metaphor in a rationalized way. We adopt comprehensive perspectives to systematically investigate three different but closely related realizations in recent literature: namely the potential landscape theory from the steady state distribution of stochastic differential equations (SDEs), the quasi-potential from the large deviation theory, and the construction through SDE decomposition and A-type integral.The connections among these theories are established in this paper. We demonstrate that the quasi-potential is the zero noise limit of the potential landscape. We also show that the potential function in the third proposal coincides with the quasi-potential. The most probable transition path by minimizing the Onsager-Machlup or Freidlin-Wentzell action functional is discussed as well. Furthermore, we compare the difference between local and global quasi-potential through the exchange of limit order for time and noise amplitude. As a consequence of such explorations, we arrive at the existence result for the SDE decomposition while deny its uniqueness in general cases. It is also clarified that the A-type integral is more appropriate to be applied to the decomposed SDEs rather than the original one. Our results contribute to a better understanding of existing landscape theories for biological systems.
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