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The macroscopic dielectric function in the random-phase-approximation without local field effect has been implemented using the local density approximation with an all electron, full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital basis-set. This method is used to investigate the optical properties of the semiconductors Si, Ge, and GaAs under hydrostatic pressure. The pressure dependence of the effective dielectric function is compared to the experimental data of Go~ni and coworkers, and an excellent agreement is found when the so called ``scissors-operator shift (SOS) is used to account for the correct band gap at $Gamma$. The effect of the $3d$ semi-core states in the interband transitions hardly changes the static dielectric function, $epsilon_infty$; however, their contribution to the intensity of absorption for higher photon energies is substantial. The spin-orbit coupling has a significant effect on $epsilon_infty$ of Ge and GaAs, but not of Si. The $E_1$ peak in the dynamical dielectric function is strongly underestimated for Si, but only slightly for Ge and GaAs, suggesting that excitonic effects might be important only for Si.
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