Solution

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Identify the real span of the roots with its dual using the invariant inner product, and put . The weight lattice is
The Weyl group is generated by the root reflections . Each reflection permutes the finite set of roots and preserves their lengths, hence also permutes their coroots. Thus, for ,
Every generating reflection therefore maps the weight lattice to itself, and so does every product. Since the inverse product has the same property, every Weyl-group element acts bijectively on . The roots span the ambient space, so the action on the finite root set is faithful; in particular the Weyl group is finite.

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