Solution

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For the same graph, let correspond to the central vertex and to the leaves. The associated simply-laced Coxeter Gram matrix has
for distinct leaves. The nonzero vector
satisfies for every basis vector. Thus the form is degenerate; in fact it is positive semidefinite with one-dimensional radical, as expected for the affine graph .
The geometric form of a finite Coxeter group is positive definite. Since this form is degenerate, the group cannot be finite.
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