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We introduce the novel numerical method for fast and accurate evaluation of the exchange part of the Fock operator in the Hartree-Fock equation which is the (nonlocal) integral operator in ${\mathbb{R}}^3\times {\mathbb{R}}^3$. Usually, this challenging computational problem is solved by laborious analytical evaluation of the two-electron integrals using "analytically separable" Galerkin basis functions, like Gaussians. Instead, we employ the agglomerated "grey-box" numerical computation of the corresponding six-dimensional integrals in the tensor-structured format which does not require analytical separability of the basis set.

The core of our method is the low-rank tensor representation of arising functions and operators on $n\times n\times n$ Cartesian grid, and implementation of the corresponding multi-linear algebraic operations in the tensor product format. Linear scaling of the tensor operations, including the 3D convolution product, with respect to the one-dimension grid size $n$ enables computations on huge 3D Cartesian grids thus providing the required high accuracy. The presented algorithm for computation of the exchange operator and a recent tensor method of the Coulomb matrix evaluation are the main building blocks in the numerical solution of the Hartree-Fock equation by the tensor-structured methods. These methods provide the new tool for algebraic optimization of the Galerkin basis in the case of large molecules.