2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/146507Functionals that have local minima at the excited states of a non degenerate Hamiltonian are presented. Then, improved mutually orthogonal approximants of the ground and the first excited state are reported.4 pagesQuantum PhysicsVariational Functionals for Excited Statestext