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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 3 4 i Solution by
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In the crystallographic convention for this course, an admissible Coxeter graph comes from linearly independent unit vectors in a Euclidean space, such that for ,The vertices have no connection when , and a single, double or triple connection when . Equivalently, the symmetric Gram matrixmust be positive-definite. This equivalence follows because a positive definite Gram matrix can be realized by linearly independent vectors, while such vectors necessarily have a positive definite Gram matrix. In the edge-labelled Coxeter graph convention, these connections have labels , since the corresponding inner products are , and .
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