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(Coleman many-body Chapter 8) Validity of near-Fermi-surface approximation

In the Chapter 8 of Coleman's many-body physics book, he argues as follows. In the impurity problem, the approximate self-energy can be written as (8.89). I have no problem until this part. However, I ...
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How can density functional theory (DFT) be understood in many body perturbation theory (MBPT) language?

Many body interacting fermions problems are formulated in the many body perturbation theory language using Feynman diagrams and imaginary time formalism. To the best of my knowledge the kinetic energy ...
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