A Minimax Principle for the Eigenvalues in Spectral Gaps

DOI10.1112/S0024610799007930zbMath0952.47022OpenAlexW1987000597MaRDI QIDQ4487489

Heinz Siedentop, Marcel Griesemer

Publication date: 22 June 2000

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/s0024610799007930

zbMATH Keywords

Schrödinger operatorDirac operatordiscrete eigenvaluesessential spectrumspectral gapselfadjoint operatorCoulomb potentialminimax principlebounded belowrelativistic Hamiltoniannon-semibounded selfadjoint operatorvariational characterization of all eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15)

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