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Weinstein's modification of the Ritz principle is used to derive (1) a lower bound for the n-th energy-level of a quantum mechanical system if a lower bound for the (n+1)-st level is known; and (2) an upper bound for the n-th level if an upper bound for the (n-1)-st level is known.
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W. Kohn (1947) studied this question.
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