Physical Review
A Variation Principle for Eigenfunctions
Lawrence C. Biedenharn, John M. Blatt
Abstract
The usual Rayleigh-Ritz variation principle for eigenvalues is extended to give a variation principle for the eigenfunctions themselves.Received 1 September 1953DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.93.230©1954 American Physical Society