Five-point Dirichlet Laplacian as a Kronecker sum

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Five-point Dirichlet Laplacian as a Kronecker sum by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If is the one-dimensional Dirichlet second-difference matrix on interior points, the two directional parts of the two-dimensional five-point Laplacian are
They commute, and is the Kronecker-sum discretization of the Laplacian.

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