“…, γ d by γ i = s d s d−1 · · · s i+1 (α i ), and write r i = ρ, γ ∨ i , where ρ is the sum of the fundamental weights. If the word α is reduced, then all the roots γ i are positive and r i ≥ 1 for each 2 Ed Richmond has pointed out that in affine type A1, given elements x, y ∈ W , one can find u, v ∈ W such that X y x = X(u) ∩ w · X(v) if and only if dim X y x = ℓ(x) − ℓ(y) = 1.…”