Iterative method used to solve a linear system of equations
                In numerical linear algebra, the          Jacobi method          is an iterative algorithm for determining the solutions of a strictly diagonally dominant system of linear equations. Each diagonal element is solved for, and an approximate value is plugged in. The process is then iterated until it converges. This algorithm is a stripped-down version of the Jacobi transformation method of matrix diagonalization. The method is named after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.        
                          Description                      [edit]                  
        Let        
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        be a square system of          n          linear equations, where:        
                                                                    
                  
        Then          A          can be decomposed into a diagonal component          D, a lower triangular part          L          and an upper triangular part          U:        
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        The solution is then obtained iteratively via        
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        where                                                            
                    is the          kth approximation or iteration of                                                            
                    and                                                            
                    is the next or          k          + 1 iteration of                                                            
          . The element-based formula is thus:        
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        The computation of                                                            
                    requires each element in          x          (k)          except itself. Unlike the Gauss–Seidel method, we can't overwrite                                                            
                    with                                                            
          , as that value will be needed by the rest of the computation. The minimum amount of storage is two vectors of size          n.        
                  Algorithm                      [edit]                  
                  Input:          initial guess                                                                      
                        to the solution, (diagonal dominant) matrix                                                            
          , right-hand side vector                                                            
          , convergence criterion          Output:          solution when convergence is reached          Comments:          pseudocode based on the element-based formula above                                                                                
                                while          convergence not reached          do          for          i := 1          step until          n          do                                                                                
                                for          j := 1          step until          n          do          if          j ≠ i          then                                                                                
                                end          end                                                                                
                                end                                                                                
                                end        
                  Convergence                      [edit]                  
        The standard convergence condition (for any iterative method) is when the spectral radius of the iteration matrix is less than 1:        
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        A sufficient (but not necessary) condition for the method to converge is that the matrix          A          is strictly or irreducibly diagonally dominant. Strict row diagonal dominance means that for each row, the absolute value of the diagonal term is greater than the sum of absolute values of other terms:        
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        The Jacobi method sometimes converges even if these conditions are not satisfied.        
        Note that the Jacobi method does not converge for every symmetric positive-definite matrix. For example        
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                  Examples                      [edit]                  
                  Example 1                      [edit]                  
        A linear system of the form                                                            
                    with initial estimate                                                            
                    is given by        
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        We use the equation                                                            
          , described above, to estimate                                                            
          . First, we rewrite the equation in a more convenient form                                                            
          , where                                                            
                    and                                                            
          . From the known values        
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        we determine                                                            
                    as        
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        Further,                                                            
                    is found as        
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        With                                                            
                    and                                                            
                    calculated, we estimate                                                            
                    as                                                            
          :        
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        The next iteration yields        
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        This process is repeated until convergence (i.e., until                                                            
                    is small).  The solution after 25 iterations is        
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                  Example 2                      [edit]                  
        Suppose we are given the following linear system:        
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        If we choose          (0, 0, 0, 0)          as the initial approximation, then the first approximate solution is given by        
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        Using the approximations obtained, the iterative procedure is repeated until the desired accuracy has been reached. The following are the approximated solutions after five iterations.        
                                                                                                                                                                      |                                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                                         |             
                          | 0.6               |               2.27272               |               -1.1               |               1.875               |             
                          | 1.04727               |               1.7159               |               -0.80522               |               0.88522               |             
                          | 0.93263               |               2.05330               |               -1.0493               |               1.13088               |             
                          | 1.01519               |               1.95369               |               -0.9681               |               0.97384               |             
                          | 0.98899               |               2.0114               |               -1.0102               |               1.02135               |             
                  
        The exact solution of the system is          (1, 2, −1, 1).        
                  Python example                      [edit]                  
                                                      import            numpy            as            np                                    ITERATION_LIMIT            =            1000                                    # initialize the matrix                        A            =            np            .            array            ([[            10.            ,            -            1.            ,            2.            ,            0.            ],                        [            -            1.            ,            11.            ,            -            1.            ,            3.            ],                        [            2.            ,            -            1.            ,            10.            ,            -            1.            ],                        [            0.0            ,            3.            ,            -            1.            ,            8.            ]])                        # initialize the RHS vector                        b            =            np            .            array            ([            6.            ,            25.            ,            -            11.            ,            15.            ])                                    # prints the system                        print            (            "System:"            )                        for            i            in            range            (            A            .            shape            [            0            ]):                        row            =            [            "            {}            *x            {}            "            .            format            (            A            [            i            ,            j            ],            j            +            1            )            for            j            in            range            (            A            .            shape            [            1            ])]                        print            (            " + "            .            join            (            row            ),            "="            ,            b            [            i            ])                        print            ()                                    x            =            np            .            zeros_like            (            b            )                        for            it_count            in            range            (            ITERATION_LIMIT            ):                        if            it_count            !=            0            :                        print            (            "Iteration                        {0}            :                        {1}            "            .            format            (            it_count            ,            x            ))                        x_new            =            np            .            zeros_like            (            x            )                                    for            i            in            range            (            A            .            shape            [            0            ]):                        s1            =            np            .            dot            (            A            [            i            ,            :            i            ],            x            [:            i            ])                        s2            =            np            .            dot            (            A            [            i            ,            i            +            1            :],            x            [            i            +            1            :])                        x_new            [            i            ]            =            (            b            [            i            ]            -            s1            -            s2            )            /            A            [            i            ,            i            ]                        if            x_new            [            i            ]            ==            x_new            [            i            -            1            ]:                        break                                    if            np            .            allclose            (            x            ,            x_new            ,            atol            =            1e-10            ,            rtol            =            0.            ):                        break                                    x            =            x_new                                    print            (            "Solution:"            )                        print            (            x            )                        error            =            np            .            dot            (            A            ,            x            )            -            b                        print            (            "Error:"            )                        print            (            error            )                                     Weighted Jacobi method                      [edit]                  
        The weighted Jacobi iteration uses a parameter                                                            
                    to compute the iteration as        
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        with                                                            
                    being the usual choice.[1]          From the relation                                                            
          , this may also be expressed as        
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            .         
                  Convergence in the symmetric positive definite case                      [edit]                  
        In case that the system matrix                                                            
                    is of symmetric positive-definite type one can show convergence.        
        Let                                                            
                    be the iteration matrix. Then, convergence is guaranteed for        
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        where                                                            
                    is the maximal eigenvalue.        
        The spectral radius can be minimized for a particular choice of                                                            
                    as follows        
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        where                                                            
                    is the matrix condition number.        
                  See also                      [edit]                  
                  - Gauss–Seidel method
           - Successive over-relaxation
           - Iterative method § Linear systems
           - Gaussian Belief Propagation
           - Matrix splitting
         
                  References                      [edit]                  
                              -                               ^                                            Saad, Yousef (2003).                  Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems                  (2nd ed.). SIAM. p. 414. ISBN0898715342.                                          
           
                           External links                      [edit]                  
                  - This article incorporates text from the article Jacobi_method on CFD-Wiki that is under the GFDL license.
         
                  -                           Black, Noel; Moore, Shirley & Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobi method".                MathWorld.                                    
           - Jacobi Method from www.math-linux.com