Asymptotic behaviour and approximation of eigenvalues for unbounded block Jacobi matrices

The research included in the paper concerns a class of symmetric block Jacobi matrices. The problem of the approximation of eigenvalues for a class of a self-adjoint unbounded operators is considered. We estimate the joint error of approximation for the eigenvalues, numbered from 1 to N, for a Jacobi matrix J by the eigenvalues of the finite submatrix J(n) of order pn x pn, where N = max{k ∈ N : k ≤ rpn} and r ∈ (0, 1) is suitably chosen. We apply this result to obtain the asymptotics of the eigenvalues of J in the case p = 3.