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The theory of cyclic voltammetry for reactions complicated by follow-up chemical steps or catalytic effects is in a quite highly developed state (see Chapter 6). Methods using a superimposed sine wave have been used in these circumstances [14], but the theory is as yet not so complete. Again, the incentive to use the a.c. technique stems mainly from the more convenient shape of the responses and the higher precision obtainable. 

On the other hand, the orbital-dependent treatment of correlation represents a much more serious challenge than that of exchange The systematic derivation of such functionals via standard many-body theory leads to rather complicated expressions. Their rigorous application within the OPM not only requires the evaluation of Coulomb matrix elements between the complete set of KS states, but, in principle, also relies on the knowledge of higher order response functions. In practical calculations, these first-principles functionals necessarily turn out to be rather inefficient, even if they are only treated perturbatively. In addition, the potential resulting from a large class of such functionals is non-physical for finite systems. Both problems are related to the presence of unoccupied states in the functionals which seems inevitable as soon as some variant of standard many-body theory is used for the derivation. 

This difficulty could be avoided by applying linear response theory, which is widely used in solid-state physics to determine directly the dynamic matrix, polarization, and frequency-dependent dielectric functions, as well as phonon dispersion curves in the harmonic approximation. This method has the great advantage that it requires only a band structure at the equilibrium geometry of the solid (chain), i.e., one does not have to determine a potential hypersurface. However, since this theory has not yet been applied to polymers and involves a rather complicated formalism, we cannot enter into details here but refer the reader to standard solid-state physical works and an application to a simple solid (Si). ... 

Below the glass temperature, the nonlinear viscoelastic response of polymeric materials has been much less widely studied than has the behavior of melts and solutions. One reason for this is the lack of an adequate theory of behavior. Therefore the discussion about amorphous materials below the glass temperature focuses on recent measurements of the nonlinear response as well as attempts to apply some of the formalisms that have been applied in the melt and solution states to the behavior of glassy polymers. Finally, the behavior of semicrystalline polymers can be even more complicated and this is discussed briefly. 

Parameter inference. The forward model or theory relates the input properties and geometry to the instrument response. In the simplest case the theory will predict the response as a simple function of the input, such that the inverse formula, stating the input parameter as a function of the response can be obtained analytically. An example is calculating the resistance of a conductor as the ratio of potential gradient to electric current, or permeability as the ratio of fluid flux to pressure gradient. In a more complicated case there may be several parameters such as the radii of the different zones of mud invasion. When there are just a few parameters it may be possible to infer the parameters from one or more instrument responses using a least squares procedure. This is an application of the usual methods of the theory of measurement as reviewed in Section 5. 

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