On the minimax principle for Coulomb-Dirac operators

DOI10.1007/s00209-015-1445-4zbMath1320.49032arXiv1401.5916OpenAlexW2011201633MaRDI QIDQ2516467

David Müller, Sergey Morozov

Publication date: 3 August 2015

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5916

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesminimax principleform perturbationCoulomb-Dirac operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Optimality conditions for minimax problems (49K35) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05)

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