7.3 Results and discussion................... 197
7.4 Conclusions......... . . .................. . 205
8 Self Consistent Field Theory 207
8.1 Ideal chain model: Continuous Gaussian chain............. 207
8.2 From particles to fields.......................... 215
8.3 Formalism of self-consistent field theory................. 219
8.4 Approximations in SCFT......................... 221
9 Concluding Remarks 223
Bibliography 227
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