Solution

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The Killing form of a complex Simple Lie algebra is nondegenerate. Since is also nondegenerate, there is a unique endomorphism of satisfying
Invariance of both forms gives
so intertwines the adjoint representation. That representation is irreducible because its invariant subspaces are ideals. The Schur lemma therefore gives . Since is nondegenerate, , and
This is the uniqueness of an invariant bilinear form on a simple Lie algebra.
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