Weyl group
The Weyl group of a root system
, where is a Euclidean vector space,is the subgroup
of generated by reflection
in the hyperplanes
perpendicular
to the roots. The map of reflection in a root is given by
The Weyl group is generated by reflections in the simple roots for any choice of a set of positive roots.There is a well-defined length function , where is the minimalnumber of reflections in simple roots that can be written as. This is also the number of positiveroots that takes to negative roots.