Abstract
Relaxed orbital binding energies have been calculated using the relativistic Hartree-Fock method for Zn, Cd and Hg. The results are in excellent agreement with relaxed orbital relativistic Hartree-Fock-Slater calculations. A residual discrepancy is found between these theoretical results and experimental values of the binding energies which, for the N shell of Hg, can be correlated with the lifetime of the core hole.