Solution

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The state update matrix is
Its eigenvalues are and , with eigenvectors and . The initial column decomposes as . Applying and reading the second component gives
The alternating term decays because its eigenvalue has modulus below one. The convergence of an adjacent-term averaging recurrence gives the same result by a first-order recurrence for successive differences.

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