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Linear Algebra and its Applications 478 (2015) 228–240 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Linear Algebra and its Applications /locate/laa A result on generating root systems by linearly independent subsets G.R. Vijayakumar School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, India a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Let Φ be a root system in a finite dimensional Euclidean space Received 8 October 2014 F and S be a subset of Φ. Let the smallest in the collection of Accepted 24 March 2015 all root systems in F which contain S—i.e., the intersection of Available online 15 April 2015 all such root systems—be denoted by R(S). It can be easily Submitted by V.V. Sergeichuk shown that Φ has linearly independent subsets X such that MSC: R(X ) = Φ—e.g., for any base Δ of Φ, R(Δ) = Φ. We prove a 15A03 result that generalizes the preceding fact: If Ψ is any subset 17B22 of Φ, then there exists a linearly independent subset S of Ψ such that R(S) ⊇ Ψ. In the process of deriving the above Keywords: one, we find a sufficient condition for a root system to be Root system base isomorphic to one of the root systems in {An , Dn+3 : n ∈ N} Exceptional root system and obtain a simple proof of