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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 2 5 iv Solution by
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The weight lattice iswhere the fundamental weights satisfy . The coroots use the normalization fixed above.
The Killing form defines the complex-linear mapBy nondegeneracy of the Killing form on a Cartan subalgebra, this is an isomorphism. For , expand its image in the dual fundamental-weight basis:The coefficients are real by the preceding positivity calculation, and the are in . ConsequentlyIn fact both spaces have real dimension , so this inclusion is equality.
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