We deal with a class of elliptic eigenvalue problems (EVPs)
on a rectangle Ω ⊂ R^2 , with periodic or semi–periodic boundary conditions
(BCs) on ∂Ω. First, for both types of EVPs, we pass to a proper variational
formulation which is shown to fit into the general framework of abstract
EVPs for symmetric, bounded, strongly coercive bilinear forms in Hilbert
spaces, see, e.g., [13, §6.2]. Next, we consider finite element methods (FEMs)
without and with numerical quadrature. The aim of the...