The augmented space approach to the study of random ternary alloys, described in
an earlier paper (Alam and Mookerjee 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21
195503), has been combined with the generalized recursion method of Viswanath
and Müller (1993 The User Friendly Recursion Method, (Troisieme Cycle de
la Physique, en Suisse Romande)) and the tight-binding linear muffin-tin
orbitals technique (TB-LMTO) to study the optical response in disordered
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alloys, and compared with existing experimental results.