Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-numerical-linear-algebra-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/2/e/solution

For , the coefficient is positive. Moreover
is a positive-definite matrix: for a nonzero vector , put ; then . Hence every eigenvalue of is strictly below one. Part (d) also gives , so these eigenvalues are nonnegative. Therefore
The energy-norm proof of convergence of SOR thus makes the iteration a strict contraction mapping in this norm. Its forward error satisfies , so it converges geometrically to zero.

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