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The longest element of a finite Weyl group is the element sending all positive roots of a root system to negative roots. It is the longest element of a finite Coxeter group. For the G2 root system it is $-I$: its twelve roots form two hexagons, and the dihedral reflection group of a root system contains the rotation through $\pi$. It determines the highest weight of a dual representation.

Choose the chain basis $v_0,\dots ,v_6$ from the preceding part, normalized by $v_1=f_1{v}_0$, $v_2=f_2{v}_1$, $v_3=f_1{v}_2$. The associated sl2 Lie algebra strings give $e_1{v}_1=v_0$, $e_1{v}_3=2v_2$ and $e_2{v}_2=v_1$; other raising actions used below vanish because their proposed weights do not occur.

In the exterior square, $v_0\wedge v_1$ is a highest-weight vector of weight $2{\omega }_1-{\alpha }_1={\omega }_2$: $e_1$ produces $v_0\wedge v_0=0$, and $e_2$ kills both factors. Alsois a nonzero highest-weight vector of weight ${\omega }_1$. Its two $e_1$ terms cancel, and its $e_2$ image is zero. The Weyl complete reducibility theorem supplies irreducible summands with those weights; their dimensions $14+7=21$ exhaust $\dim {\Lambda }^{2}V$. ThusFor the symmetric square, $v_0\otimes v_0$ is a highest-weight vector of weight $2{\omega }_1$, giving a 27-dimensional summand. The longest Weyl-group element of $G_2$ acts as minus the identity, so the highest weight of a dual representation is $-w_0{\omega }_1={\omega }_1$: $V$ is self-dual. A nonzero intertwiner $V\to V^{\ast }$ gives a nondegenerate Lie-invariant bilinear form. It is symmetric, since an alternating bilinear form cannot be nondegenerate in odd dimension. Its inverse is a nonzero invariant vector in $S^{2}V$, supplying the scalar summand. Since $27+1=28=\dim S^{2}V$,These are the exterior and symmetric squares of the seven-dimensional G2 representation; all highest-weight and dimension claims are specified rather than relying on an unstated cross-product identity.