Renormalization of various quantities for dilute polymer solutions undergoing shear flow

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Abstract
We discuss the renormalization of the stress, gyration, and diffusion tensors for polymers in dilute solution in the presence of steady shear flow. For all finite values of the reduced shear rate, the first-order perturbation theory of hydrodynamic-interaction and excluded-volume effects yields regular functions of the renormalized model parameters. In the high-shear-rate limit, the power-law dependence of various quantities on the reduced shear rate can be evaluated explicitly.