A positive definiteness criterion and, under the additional conditions, a nonnegativity criterion for a self-adjoint continuous operator matrix, acting in product of an arbitrary number of real separable Hilbert spaces, are obtained. As application, both sufficient and necessary analytical conditions of functional extremum of several Hilbert variables are considered. Mathematics subject classification (2000): 47A63, 47A07.
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