ISSN:
1572-9613
Keywords:
Renormalization group
;
dimensional regularization
;
polymer excluded volume
;
crossover
;
polyelectrolytes
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract A description is provided of the chain conformation space renormalization group approach to the treatment of polymer excluded volume. This method is transformed into one of identical form to the t'Hooft-Veltman renormalization method of field theory, thereby enabling comparison with other methods. A summary is provided of recent new results obtained by this technique for the full second-order dependence of the mean square end-to-end distance 〈R 2〉 on chain length and excluded volume as well as a calculation of 〈R 2〉 for a polyelectrolyte chain with added salt.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01012317
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