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Let $A=D+L+L^T$ be a real symmetric positive-definite matrix, with $D$ diagonal and $L$ strictly lower triangular. Put $B=D/\omega +L$ and $C_{\omega }=I-B^{-1}A$ for $\omega \ne 0$. The matrix norm induced by an energy norm reduces the question to $T=A^{1/2}{C}_{\omega }{A}^{-1/2}$. Direct multiplication and $B+B^T-A=(2/\omega -1)D$ giveThe left side is positive semidefinite. The matrix following the scalar coefficient on the right is positive-definite, since $D$ has positive diagonal and $B^{-1}{A}^{1/2}$ is an invertible matrix. For $0<\omega <2$, every eigenvalue of $T^{T}T$ therefore lies in $[0,1)$. Hence its spectral radius is below one and $\Vert C_{\omega }{\Vert }_A=\Vert T{\Vert }_2<1$. Iteration errors consequently decay geometrically in the energy norm. The argument proves convergence from every initial vector, without requiring the original iteration matrix to be symmetric.

The induced matrix norm associated with the given energy norm is a supremum of length ratios. The invertible change of variables $y=A^{1/2}x$ givesThe last expression is the Euclidean operator norm. This is the matrix norm induced by an energy norm: transforming to coordinates with Euclidean lengths transforms the operator by the corresponding matrix similarity.

Apply the matrix norm induced by an energy norm and set $T=A^{1/2}C(\omega )A^{-1/2}=I-A^{1/2}{B}^{-1}{A}^{1/2}$. Multiplication givesThe bracket factors as $B^{-T}(B+B^T-A)B^{-1}$. Because $B=D/\omega +L$ and $A=D+L+L^T$,Thus $T^{T}T=M(\omega )$ for the stated matrix. In particular $M(\omega )$ is a positive semidefinite matrix. The Euclidean operator norm squared is the largest eigenvalue of $T^{T}T$, 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 $M(\omega )=T^{T}T$.