| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Introduction to Electronic States in Oxides and an Overview of Transport Properties | p. 5 |
| Atoms in a Ligand Field | p. 5 |
| Electronic Energy Bands | p. 10 |
| Electron-Electron Interaction | p. 10 |
| Direct Interaction | p. 10 |
| Indirect Interaction | p. 11 |
| Electron-Phonon Interaction | p. 11 |
| The Adiabatic Approximation | p. 11 |
| The Fröhlich Model, the Deformation Potential and the Simple Metal | p. 12 |
| Polarons | p. 13 |
| Randomness | p. 15 |
| Anderson Localization | p. 15 |
| Variable Range Hopping | p. 15 |
| The Seebeck Coefficient and Hall Mobility | p. 16 |
| Magnetic Susceptibility | p. 17 |
| Metal-Insulator Transition (MIT) | p. 19 |
| Good Conductors | p. 38 |
| The NaCl Structure | p. 40 |
| The Corundum Structure | p. 44 |
| The Rutile Structure | p. 45 |
| The Perovskite Structure | p. 47 |
| The K2NiF4 Structure | p. 52 |
| ReO3 and Mx WO3 | p. 52 |
| Pyrochlores A2B2O7-x | p. 53 |
| Spinels | p. 54 |
| Low-Dimensional Oxides | p. 55 |
| Theories for Many-Electron Systems with Strong Electron-Phonon and Interelectron Coulombic Interactions | p. 57 |
| Single-Body Problems in Strongly Coupled Electron-Phonon Systems | p. 60 |
| Electrons, Phonons and Their Couplings | p. 60 |
| Weak Coupling and Large Polarons | p. 61 |
| Strong Coupling, Self-Trapping, Broken Symmetry and Dimensionality | p. 62 |
| Dynamics of Self-Trapping | p. 65 |
| Two-Body Problems in Strongly Coupled Electron-Phonon Systems | p. 67 |
| Bipolarons | p. 67 |
| Charge Separation of Self-Trapped Exciton | p. 69 |
| Excitons and Solitons in One-Dimensional Charge Density Wave States | p. 71 |
| Phase Diagram of the Ground State | p. 74 |
| Nonlinear Lattice Relaxation and Proliferations of Excitons in One-Dimensional CDW | p. 76 |
| One-Dimensional Extended Peierls-Hubbard Model | p. 78 |
| Relaxation in One-Dimensional CDW | p. 80 |
| Direct and Indirect Excitons in Three-Dimensional CDW State | p. 83 |
| Three-Dimensional Extended Peierls-Hubbard Model for BaBiO3 | p. 85 |
| Direct and Indirect Excitons | p. 85 |
| Competition Between Superconductivity and CDW State | p. 87 |
| The Many-Polaron System | p. 88 |
| Phase Diagram | p. 90 |
| Superconducting Transition Temperatures of Strongly Coupled Electron-Phonon Systems | p. 94 |
| Expected Behaviour of Tc | p. 94 |
| Interpolating Theory for Tc by CPA | p. 95 |
| Many-Electron System Coupling Strongly with Nonlinear Phonons | p. 98 |
| BCS Limit, Nonlinear Phonons and Isotope Effects | p. 98 |
| Anharmonic Peierls-Hubbard Model | p. 100 |
| Anharmonicity and Metal-Insulator (CDW, SDW) Transitions | p. 101 |
| Isotope Effects and Anharmonicity by the BCS Theory | p. 104 |
| Migdal-Eliashberg Theory | p. 105 |
| Non-Grassmann Path Integral Theory for Long-Range Coulomb Repulsion | p. 107 |
| Quadratic Form for Long-Range Coulomb Interaction | p. 108 |
| Path-Integral for Both Short- and Long-Range Parts | p. 109 |
| One-Body Green's Function Free from Grassmann Algebra | p. 110 |
| Time-Dependent Bloch-De Dominicis Theorem | p. 113 |
| Light Absorption Spectrum of the SDW State | p. 116 |
| Electron-Electron Interaction and Electron Correlation | p. 119 |
| Introduction | p. 119 |
| Microscopic Models of Interacting Electrons | p. 120 |
| One-Electron Theories and Electron Correlation | p. 123 |
| Hartree-Fock Approximation | p. 124 |
| Local Density Approximation | p. 126 |
| Electron Correlation Effects | p. 126 |
| Electronic Structure of Transition-Metal Ions | p. 127 |
| Hartree-Fock Scheme | p. 127 |
| Ligand-Field Theory | p. 128 |
| d Bands and Carrier Doping in Mott Insulators | p. 131 |
| Hybridization Between d and p Electrons | p. 133 |
| Mott-Hubbard Type and Charge-Transfer Type | p. 133 |
| Configuration-Interaction Theory | p. 136 |
| Magnetic Interactions | p. 140 |
| Superexchange Interaction | p. 140 |
| Local Moment in Metals | p. 142 |
| Correlated Metals | p. 144 |
| Metal-Insulator Transition | p. 144 |
| Hubbard Model | p. 145 |
| Fermi-Liquid Properties | p. 146 |
| Long-Range Coulomb Interaction | p. 150 |
| Mixed Valence States | p. 151 |
| Anderson Localization | p. 152 |
| Representative Conducting Oxides | p. 157 |
| ReO3: The Most Conductive d¿ Conductor | p. 158 |
| Crystal Structure | p. 158 |
| Electronic Properties | p. 160 |
| SnO2 and TiO2: Oxide Semiconductors | p. 168 |
| Electronic Energy Band Structure of SnO2 | p. 169 |
| Electrical Conductivity of SnO2 | p. 170 |
| Optical Properties of SnO2 | p. 175 |
| TiO2 | p. 177 |
| LiTi2O4 and LiV2O4: Weak-Coupling Superconductor and Temperature-Dependent Magnetism | p. 181 |
| Crystal Structure | p. 182 |
| Electronic Properties | p. 183 |
| Superconducting Properties | p. 185 |
| Insulating Properties: Nonzero Density of States | p. 186 |
| LiV2O4-ZnV2O4 | p. 190 |
| WO3 and Mx WO3: Large Polarons | p. 191 |
| Structure | p. 192 |
| Electronic Properties in the Insulating Range and the Metal-Insulator Transition | p. 193 |
| Superconductivity and Screening of the Electron-Phonon Interaction | p. 198 |
| Mx V2O5 and MxMoO3: Low-Dimensional Oxides | p. 199 |
| Crystal Structure of ß-NaxV2O5 | p. 199 |
| Electronic Properties of Na-Vanadium Bronze | p. 200 |
| Magnetic Properties | p. 205 |
| Specific Heat | p. 206 |
| EPR and NMR in Nax V2O5 | p. 207 |
| Molybdenum Bronzes | p. 209 |
| NiO: Origin of the Band Gap and Hole Conduction | p. 213 |
| Optical and Magnetic Properties | p. 213 |
| Transport Properties | p. 216 |
| Electronic Structure | p. 221 |
| Electronic Structure of Acceptor Level | p. 225 |
| Band Theory of Mott Insulators | p. 227 |
| Perovskite-Type Mn Oxides: Magnetoresistance | p. 230 |
| Crystal Structure | p. 230 |
| Ferromagnetic Metal-Paramagnetic Insulator Transition | p. 231 |
| Electronic Structure | p. 234 |
| Charge and Orbital Ordering | p. 236 |
| Polaron Effects | p. 237 |
| Fe3O4, Verwey Transition | p. 243 |
| Phase Diagram of the Iron-Oxygen System | p. 244 |
| The Spinel Structure | p. 246 |
| Verwey's Model: Order-Disorder Transformation of Fe2+ and Fe3+ | p. 248 |
| Comment by Anderson: Frustration on the B Lattice | p. 250 |
| Transport Phenomena and the Fluctuation of Charge | p. 252 |
| Band Structure | p. 259 |
| Fluctuating Local Lattice Distortion and Electron-Phonon Coupling | p. 263 |
| Itinerant Versus Localized Character of Carriers | p. 268 |
| High-Tc Superconductors | p. 270 |
| d¿ Conductors | p. 271 |
| La2CuO4 | p. 272 |
| La2-xMxCuO4 | p. 276 |
| YBa2Cu3O7-x | p. 288 |
| Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 | p. 305 |
| References | p. 321 |
| Index | p. 361 |
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