Variational principles for eigenvalues of self-adjoint operator functions

Integral Equations and Operator Theory

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 287-321

  Eschwé, David ^a   Langer, Matthias ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Operator function; Schur complement; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042793887     PISSN: 0378620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00020-002-1209-5     Document Type: Article

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