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For $V=L({\omega }_1)$ with the G2 root system numbered short-first,In the chain basis of the crystal of the seven-dimensional G2 representation, normalize $v_1=f_1{v}_0$, $v_2=f_2{v}_1$, $v_3=f_1{v}_2$. Then $v_0\wedge v_1$ and $v_0\wedge v_3-2v_1\wedge v_2$ are nonzero highest-weight vectors of weights ${\omega }_2$ and ${\omega }_1$; the identities $e_1{v}_1=v_0$, $e_1{v}_3=2v_2$, $e_2{v}_2=v_1$ verify both raising conditions. The Weyl complete reducibility theorem and G2 dimension polynomial exhaust the twenty-one dimensions of the exterior square. In the symmetric square, $v_0^2$ generates the twenty-seven-dimensional summand. Self-duality supplies a Lie-invariant bilinear form, which is symmetric because a nondegenerate alternating bilinear form cannot have odd dimension; its inverse gives the remaining invariant line.

The G2 dimension polynomial gives dimension seven at the short-root fundamental weight, soThe crystal of the seven-dimensional G2 representation is a chain whose weights, in order, areIts successive arrow colors are $1,2,1,1,2,1$, as drawn above. Each arrow subtracts its indicated simple root; in particular the central three vertices form a length-two string of color one. The six nonzero weights are exactly the six short roots, each with multiplicity one, and the zero weight also has multiplicity one.