Jacobi convergence for the nine-point Dirichlet stencil ($\rho (I-D^{-1}A)<1$)

The Jacobi method has axial neighbour weights $1/5$ and diagonal weights $1/20$. Interior row sums are one, boundary-adjacent sums are smaller, and the positive-weight graph is connected. If an eigenvalue had modulus one, a maximal-modulus eigenvector component would force all its neighbours to have the same modulus. Propagation reaches a deficient row, a contradiction. This proves strict spectral-radius control even though the infinity norm of the iteration matrix can equal one.