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End-to-end displacement of fiber:
From different observables that characterize the size of a polymer configuration, we evaluate the end-to-end displacement vector , where denotes the position of the filament at arc length s. The mean square value of is then
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(34.8) |
Integrating the unit tangent vector
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(34.9) |
Substituting the expression for from equation 34.9 in equation 34.8,
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(34.10) |
From equation 34.7, the correlation function decays exponentially, to yield
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(34.11) |
The condition that the argument needs to be negative can be imposed by breaking the integration into two parts,
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(34.12) |
Above integration yields the following,
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