Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/iii/paper-2/5/iv/solution

The weight lattice is
where the fundamental weights satisfy . The coroots use the normalization fixed above.
The Killing form defines the complex-linear map
By 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 . Consequently
In fact both spaces have real dimension , so this inclusion is equality.

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