Perturbation expansions for the transport quantities of dilute polymer solutions

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Abstract
The dynamics of a single polymer chain in solution is formulated in the framework of path integrals. The method enables one to obtain the perturbation expansions of the transport quantities in power of the excluded volume and the hydrodynamic interactions. The inelastic scattering function and the diffusion coefficient are considered in the first-order perturbation theory.