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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 1 5 a Solution by
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Identify the real span of the roots with its dual using the invariant inner product, and put . The weight lattice isThe 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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