Abstract
Local approximations to interelectronic exchange are tested by comparing frozen-core relativistic Hartree-Fock calculations with relativistic model-potential results. The calculations are identical except in the treatment of exchange. Two new local approximations are suggested which appear significantly better than the usual Slater-type potential at reproducing effects of exchange between core and valence electrons of atoms. Results are tabulated for average radii and one-electron energies in Ag and Rb. Errors arising from the local approximation of exchange have been reduced on the average by a factor of about 5 with no increase in the complexity of the calculations.

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