Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2024/iii/paper-102/3/b/iv/solution

The linear map
preserves and exchanges with while fixing . It is not in the Weyl group, whose signed permutations change an even number of signs. Thus it is an outer automorphism of the root system.

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