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Dedicated to H.S.M. Coxeter for his 80th Birthday
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Coleman, A.J. Killing and the Coxeter transformation of Kac-Moody algebras. Invent Math 95, 447–477 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01393885
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