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I am looking at your page 6 of your lecture notes from here.

Looking at the Ising Model:

Then going to the formula for . Does the subscript i have anything to do with the index of summation i or does it stand for internal?

Also, why is the third formula:

I thought it would be:

since the external field is being subtracted in the initial equation above.

Also on the homework, I am not sure where the and come into play. Do we just use them for the self consistent equations like we did in class:

or are we supposed to substitute one of them into the initial equation of the Ising Model?