In this paper we study the spectral-weight transfer from the high- to
the low-energy scale by means of exact diagonalization of finite clust
ers for the Mott-Hubbard and charge-transfer model. We find that the s
pectral-weight transfer is very sensitive to the hybridization strengt
h as well as to the amount of doping. This implies that the effective
number of low-energy degrees of freedom is a function of the hybridiza
tion and therefore of the volume and temperature. In this sense it is
not possible to define a Hamiltonian which describes the low-energy-sc
ale physics unless one accepts an effective nonparticle conservation.