Bourbaki

Corollary

Tag 0AV6, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0AV6].

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter VI, § 1. Root systems

Let R1R_1 and R2R_2 be two reduced root systems in vector spaces V1V_1 and V2V_2, and let B1B_1 and B2B_2 be bases of R1R_1 and R2R_2. Let f:B1→B2f : B_1 \to B_2 be a bijection that transforms the Cartan matrix of R1R_1 to that of R2R_2. Then there exists an isomorphism F:V1→V2F : V_1 \to V_2 that transforms R1R_1 to R2R_2 and α\alpha to f(α)f(\alpha) for all α∈B1\alpha \in B_1.

Let FF be the isomorphism from V1V_1 to V2V_2 that takes α\alpha to f(α)f(\alpha) for all α∈B1\alpha \in B_1. Then FF transforms sαs_\alpha to sf(α)s_{f(\alpha)}, hence W(R1)W(R_1) to W(R2)W(R_2) (Th. 2), and hence R1R_1 to R2R_2 (Prop. 15).

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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