Short-root neighbours of long roots in type F4 #
The integral span of the short-root weights detects every coroot. Together with the F4 length bounds, this supplies a descending-free root string through each long root.
theorem
TauCeti.DynkinType.exists_f4_short_neighbor_of_long
(α : Fin 48)
(hα : f4Length α = 2)
:
∃ (β : Fin 48) (γ : Fin 48),
f4Length β = 1 ∧ RootPairing.pairing f4SimplyConnectedRootDatum β α = -1 ∧ f4SimplyConnectedRootDatum.root γ = f4SimplyConnectedRootDatum.root β + f4SimplyConnectedRootDatum.root α ∧ f4Length γ = 1 ∧ RootPairing.chainBotCoeff α β = 0
Every long F₄ root has a short neighbour one step away in a descending-free root string.
Concretely, for a long root α there is a short root β with ⟨β, α∨⟩ = -1; then β + α
is a short root and the root string through β in the α direction has bottom coefficient zero.