Table of Contents

Introduction; Local density functional theories; Schrodinger and Dirac Hamiltonians for a central field; Resolvents and Green functions; Single-site scattering; Multiple scattering; Multiple scattering theory for disordered systems - the coherent potential approximation; Spectral densities; Some illustrations; Charge self-consistency and total energies; Applications of multiple scattering I: band structure spectroscopy; Applications of multiple scattering II:
physical and transport properties related to the Fermi energy; Applications of multiple scattering III: ferromagnetic alloys and finite temperature magnetism