Abstract
The exact analytical expressions for the diagonal and off-diagonal elements of the Green function, the local and total density of states, and the free-energy are derived from the real space representation, in the form of infinite matrices, of the tight-binding Hamiltonian describing a crystal perturbed by a vacancy or a surface. The feasibility of this matrix method, which offers a most simple and rigourous treatment of simple defect models in crystals, is thus established

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