Solution

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For the Adjoint representation, the root-space decomposition gives the eight nonzero weights
each of multiplicity one, and weight zero of multiplicity two from the Cartan subalgebra. Thus its weight diagram is the root diagram with a double zero weight, and its total dimension is .
Figure 1.
Adjoint sp4 weights: the eight roots and the zero weight of multiplicity two
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