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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2025 4 a Solution by
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For the A5 root system, take simple roots , , in the hyperplane . Their squared lengths are two, adjacent simple roots have inner product , and all other pairs are orthogonal. Hence the An Dynkin diagram is the five-node single-edge chainIts Cartan matrix isThe complex Lie algebra is ; the corresponding compact special unitary group is , whose Lie algebra is its compact real form.
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