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Variational principles are very powerful tools when studying self-adjoint linear operators on a Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}\). Bounds for eigenvalues, comparison theorems, interlacing results and monotonicity of eigenvalues can be proved easily with these characterizations, to name just a few. In this paper we consider generalization of these principles to families of linear, self-adjoint operators depending continuously on a scalar in a real interval.
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Voss, H. (2015). Variational Principles for Eigenvalues of Nonlinear Eigenproblems. In: Abdulle, A., Deparis, S., Kressner, D., Nobile, F., Picasso, M. (eds) Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications - ENUMATH 2013. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10705-9_30
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