Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1983. p. 437-447.
A description is provided of the chain conformation space renormalization group approach to the treatment of polymer excluded volume. This method is transformed into one of identical form to the t'Hooft-Veltman renormalization method of field theory, thereby enabling comparison with other methods. A summary is provided of recent new results obtained by this technique for the full second-order dependence of the mean square end-to-end distance (R^2) on chain length and excluded volume as well as a calculation of (R^2) for a polyelectrolyte chain with added salt.