A particularly simple constructive choice uses paired collocation points for a global relation. For , put
Four suitable sets, one for each side, are
The braces in each set range over all . For large , compute to avoid cancellation. The corresponding pairs are, respectively,
Each pair has the same exponentially growing normal direction and opposite tangential frequencies. Take the phase-weighted difference of the two collocated global relations for a linear boundary value problem. For example, the bottom pair gives the adjoint test
The other three phase-weighted differences give
Thus the four spectral sets supply four real sine-tested equations per mode. We retain these equations; requiring every uncombined complex equation as well would instead form an overdetermined finite approximation. For real traces each retained equation is the appropriate real combination of its conjugate pair.
The key advantage is that vanish on the vertical sides, while vanish on the horizontal sides. Orthogonality then eliminates all off-mode unknowns. Define the known right-hand sides
The retained global relations for a linear boundary value problem are
For example, with , the bottom and top right-hand sides are explicitly
For completeness the left and right right-hand sides are
All these integrals use known polynomial approximations or the exact Dirichlet boundary condition.
Scale each row by . Every block becomes
There is just one off-diagonal entry in each row. This proves diagonal dominance of paired square global-relation collocation. Therefore the assembled system is strictly diagonally dominant, with row margin . This proof applies to the explicitly paired and scaled collocation system, rather than assuming arbitrary raw spectral rows are diagonally dominant. Each block is a positive-definite matrix and have spectral condition number of a positive-definite matrix
For instance, setting gives the concise answer
with the identical formula for the opposite vertical sides. If the known-data integrals use exact , these are exactly the first sine coefficients of the true normal traces: no discarded unknown mode contributes to a retained row. With a finite Legendre polynomial approximation, the error is solely that of the known-data approximation and the final normal-trace truncation. These square modified Helmholtz Dirichlet-to-Neumann coefficients determine the unknown boundary normal derivative; Green's third identity or the separated-variable construction can then recover the interior solution.
Apply Green second identity to and the free-space Green function on with a small ball about removed. Both functions are harmonic there, so only boundary terms remain. The contribution from the small sphere tends to because
has unit delta source, while the remaining small-sphere term vanishes. Taking the radius to zero gives Green's third identity