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Past exam of the numerical linear algebra course of the University of Oxford 2011 2 d Solution by
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Apply the matrix norm induced by an energy norm and set . Multiplication givesThe bracket factors as . Because and ,Thus for the stated matrix. In particular is a positive semidefinite matrix. The Euclidean operator norm squared is the largest eigenvalue of , and all those eigenvalues are nonnegative. ConsequentlyThis identity is the algebraic step in the energy-norm proof of convergence of SOR; spectral radius equals the largest eigenvalue here because .
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