Centered Dirichlet drift-diffusion energy identity

ID: centered-dirichlet-drift-diffusion-energy-identity

For the centered second difference and centered first difference on a finite interval with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, the diffusion matrix is symmetric negative definite and the drift matrix is skew-symmetric. Discrete summation by parts gives the displayed mesh-weighted identity. It proves contraction in the discrete L2 norm without needing periodic modes, positive stencil coefficients or simultaneous diagonalization.

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