Order the interior grid values into a vector. The coefficient matrix has diagonal and off-diagonal entries at horizontal and vertical neighbours, with boundary values already zero. Every row is strictly diagonally dominant because . The standard convergence theorem for strict diagonal dominance gives convergence of both the Jacobi method and the Gauss-Seidel method. The matrix is also symmetric positive definite.
For , the weighted Jacobi method is , with iteration matrix . The sine-product grid eigenvectors give
These weighted Jacobi eigenvalues for a square Dirichlet grid determine convergence. All eigenvalues of are positive. Thus for fixed convergence requires , where . As , this upper bound tends to from above. Any fixed therefore fails on sufficiently fine grids; also fails. Consequently is necessary for all mesh sizes, and it is sufficient, since for every finite grid.
With and , the system is
Its diagonal part is . The weighted Jacobi method, also called the Relaxed Jacobi method, is
Componentwise,
with .
Subtracting the fixed point from the weighted Jacobi method gives
Put . Acting on the supplied sine eigenvector gives
Therefore
and the corresponding eigenvalues of the iteration matrix are