TY - JOUR ID - Katsouleas2013 LB - Katsouleas2013 AU - Katsouleas, Georgios AU - Maroulas, John TI - Variational characterizations for eigenfunctions of analytic self-adjoint operator functions ST - Variational characterizations for eigenfunctions of analytic self-adjoint operator functions JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2013 VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 307 EP - 321 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2013.33.2.307 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2013.33.2.307 AB - 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. KW - operator functions KW - eigenfunctions KW - eigenvalues KW - variational principles SN - 1232-9274 ER -