In the crystallographic convention, a Coxeter graph is admissible when it is realized by linearly independent unit vectors in a Euclidean space, with nonpositive mutual inner products and for distinct vertices. The number records a single, double or triple connection; equivalently, the displayed Gram matrix is positive-definite. In edge-label notation the nonzero connections have labels . Forgetting multiplicity, the underlying graph is a forest: for any cycle of distinct vertices, the sum of the corresponding unit vectors would have squared norm at most , contradicting their linear independence. Multiple lines on one connection are labels and are not length-two cycles. This is the convention of Wehler's Lie algebra notes, section 6.3.

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