  The structural properties of polymers adsorbed onto a surface have been
widely investigated using self-consistent mean-field theories. Recently,
analytical mean-field theories have been applied to study polymer adsorption on
curved surfaces but all in the context of the ground state dominance
approximation in which the polymer chain length (N) is essentially infinite.
Using an expression for the free energy by Semenov, we determine leading order
(in 1/N) corrections due to the finiteness of the polymer chain length on
surface tension, spontaneous curvature, and rigidity constants.
