 Root-system finiteness lemma (source code)

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= Root-system finiteness lemma

For roots $\alpha\ne\pm\beta$,
$$
\langle\alpha,\beta^\vee\rangle
\langle\beta,\alpha^\vee\rangle
=4\cos^2\theta\in\{0,1,2,3\},
$$
where $\theta$ is their angle. Integrality gives an integer, and nonparallelism makes it strictly smaller than four.

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