Summary. The optimality question for block p-cyclic SOR iterations discussed in Young and Varga is answered under natural conditions on the spectrum of the block Jacobi matrix. In particular, it is shown that repartitioning a block p-cyclic matrix into a block q-cyclic form, q
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