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Every finite reflection-invariant set of vectors is crystallographic

Statement

False: a finite set of nonzero vectors spanning a Euclidean space that is invariant under all of its root reflections need not be crystallographic; reflection invariance alone does not force the Cartan integers 2(β,α)/(α,α) to be integers.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The regular pentagon and the notation of the root-system axioms.

[L1]

A reduced crystallographic root system requires sα(Φ)=Φ and integrality of all Cartan integers (Reduced crystallographic Euclidean root system).

Proof

technique · counterexample
1.1givenalgebra

Let Φ={±(cos⁡(2πk/5),sin⁡(2πk/5)):k=0,1,2,3,4}⊂R2; it is a finite subset of R2∖{0} spanning R2, and its ten elements lie on five distinct lines, so Rα∩Φ={±α} for each α∈Φ.

1.2L1algebra

The set Φ consists exactly of the unit vectors whose angles are mπ/5, m∈Z/10Z. If α has angle mπ/5, then sα is reflection in the perpendicular line at angle mπ/5+π/2. It therefore sends the vector at angle nπ/5 to the vector at angle 2(mπ5+π2)−nπ5=(2m+5−n)π5, which again belongs to Φ. Hence sα(Φ)=Φ for every α∈Φ.

1.3givenalgebra

The integrality axiom fails. Take α=(1,0) and β=(cos⁡(2π/5),sin⁡(2π/5)); then 2(β,α)/(α,α)=2cos⁡(2π/5)=:y. With ζ=e2πi/5 one has y=ζ+ζ−1 and 1+ζ+ζ2+ζ3+ζ4=0, so dividing by ζ2 gives 0=ζ2+ζ+1+ζ−1+ζ−2=(y2−2)+y+1, that is y2+y−1=0 and y(y+1)=1. If y were an integer, the integer factor pair (y,y+1) would have to be (1,1) or (−1,−1), neither of which consists of consecutive integers. Hence y∉Z.

2.1L1step 1.1step 1.2step 1.3∎

Thus Φ is a finite, spanning, reduced, reflection-invariant set of nonzero vectors whose Cartan integer y is not an integer, so Φ is not a crystallographic root system by [L1]; this refutes the claim that reflection invariance alone suffices.

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