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The authors study the convergence property of the Schwarz alternating method for a concave region, where the concave region is decomposed into convex subdomains. The homogeneous Dirichlet value problem is discussed on \(\Omega\) where \(\Omega\) is a concave polygonal region, \( \Omega=\Omega_1 \cup \Omega_2\), \(\Omega_1\cap \Omega_2 \neq \emptyset \), \(\Omega_1 \) and \( \Omega_2 \) are two convex subdomains. The boundaries of \( \Omega_1 \) and \(\Omega_2 \) coincide with the finite element triangulation: \(\Gamma_1=\partial\Omega_1\cap\Omega_2\), \(\Gamma_2=\partial\Omega_2\cap\Omega_1\), \(\overline{\Gamma_1}\cap\overline{\Gamma_2} \) is the concave point, \(\Gamma_1 \) and \( \Gamma_2 \) are supposed to be straight lines and the angle between \(\Gamma_1 \) and \( \Gamma_2 \) is \( \theta \). The authors prove the convergence of the Schwarz method on such a domain. They prove that the condition numbers are independent of the mesh size but dependent on the relative geometric position of the subdomains.