@Article{Katsouleas2013, author = "Katsouleas, Georgios and Maroulas, John", title = "Variational characterizations for eigenfunctions of analytic self-adjoint operator functions", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2013", volume = "33", number = "2", pages = "307--321", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2013.33.2.307", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2013.33.2.307", abstract = "In this paper we consider Rellich's diagonalization theorem for analytic self-adjoint operator functions and investigate variational principles for their eigenfunctions and interlacing statements. As an application, we present a characterization for the eigenvalues of hyperbolic operator polynomials.", keywords = "operator functions, eigenfunctions, eigenvalues, variational principles", issn = "1232-9274" }