METHOD FOR DETERMINING BY DIRECT RENORMALIZATION THE PROPERTIES OF LONG POLYMERS IN SOLUTIONS.

It is shown that the properties of long polymers in a solution can be determined by direct renormalization of fundamental quantities such as end to end distances of polymers and virial coefficients. As an example, the second virial coefficient of a monodisperse polymer solution and the critical indices gamma , nu and omega , are calculated to first order in epsilon equals 4 minus d(d equals dimension of space). The method is quite general and applies also to polydisperse polymers.