| Preface | |
| Technical Preliminaries | p. 1 |
| Generalities on Green Functions and Related Concepts | p. 1 |
| Continuous and Discrete Systems | p. 5 |
| Continuous Systems: Description of the Bulk in Terms of Planar Projections | p. 12 |
| Discrete Systems: Layer Description of the Bulk | p. 23 |
| General Form of the SGFM Method | p. 29 |
| A Reminder of Scattering Theory | p. 29 |
| Scattering and Matching: The General SGFM Formulae | p. 32 |
| Planar Geometry: Continuous Media | p. 37 |
| Planar Geometry: Discrete Media | p. 45 |
| Amplitude Transfer Matrix, Wavefunction Normalisation and Density of States | p. 50 |
| Matching Analysis for Continuous Systems | p. 55 |
| Continuity Conditions for Planar Projections | p. 55 |
| Discontinuity Conditions, Matching Rules and the Matching Formula | p. 62 |
| Some Practical Examples | p. 66 |
| The Wavefunction and the Logarithmic Derivatives | p. 82 |
| Physical Meaning of the Matching Secular Equation | p. 85 |
| A Theorem on Arbitrary Extended Pseudomedia | p. 89 |
| Matching for a Discrete System | p. 95 |
| The Meaning of Matching for Discrete Crystals | p. 95 |
| The Matching Formula for Discrete Interfaces | p. 97 |
| The Free Surface: Examples | p. 104 |
| SGFM For Coupled Interfaces | p. 119 |
| Two Plane Interfaces. Continuous Media | p. 119 |
| Study of the Superlattice. Continuous Media | p. 135 |
| Examples of Layered Continuous Systems | p. 144 |
| Coupled Interfaces. Discrete Media | p. 166 |
| Examples of Superperiodic Discrete Systems | p. 179 |
| Structural Green Function and Truncated Superlattices | p. 189 |
| The Geometry of the Matching Surface | p. 205 |
| Matching on a Sphere or a Cylinder | p. 205 |
| A Three-dimensional Lattice of Sphere: SGFM Study of a Muffin Tin Crystal | p. 217 |
| A Two-dimensional Lattice of Cylinders or Disks | p. 230 |
| A Sphere and a Plan or Two Spheres | p. 241 |
| The Full Transfer Matrix and SGFM For Continuous Media | p. 249 |
| The Full Transfer Matrix and the Scalar Green Function | p. 249 |
| Scalar SGFM from the Full Transfer Matrices | p. 263 |
| General Analysis of the Matrix Case | p. 269 |
| Finding the Green Function for an Arbitrary Medium | p. 276 |
| Matrix SGFM from the Full Transfer Matrices | p. 283 |
| Wavefunction, Green Function and Transfer Matrices for a General System | p. 291 |
| Evaluation of the Full Transfer Matrix | p. 295 |
| Some Practical Examples | p. 299 |
| Transfer Matrix and SGFM For Discrete Media | p. 323 |
| Transfer Matrices for Discrete Crystalline Media | p. 323 |
| SGFM from the Transfer Matrices | p. 330 |
| Some Practical Examples | p. 336 |
| A Miscellany of Problems Related to Matching | p. 369 |
| Selfconsistent Matching Calculations | p. 370 |
| Disordered Interfaces | p. 372 |
| Long Wave Surface Spin Waves | p. 381 |
| Problems Involving Coupled Fields: Piezoelectric and Magnetoelastic Surface Waves | p. 391 |
| Longitudinal and Transverse Fields in Matched Systems | p. 405 |
| Matching with Discontinuities | p. 421 |
| Surface Waves in Fluids | p. 428 |
| A: Matching with Envelope Function Model Hamiltonians | p. 439 |
| References | p. 472 |
| References | p. 473 |
| Index | p. 495 |
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