Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-111/1/e/solution

By the assumed transitivity on fundamental systems, some sends to . It therefore sends the entire positive system of a root system to . Part d then gives
For every , its inversion set is contained in , so and has maximal length.
If also has maximal length, then , so . Hence preserves and has no inversions. Part d makes its Coxeter length zero, so it is the identity. Thus , proving that the Longest element of a finite Coxeter group is unique and has length .
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