Three Desks, One Common Correlation

Three trading desks report daily P\&L. A risk manager finds that every pair of desks has exactly the same correlation rr: corr(X,Y)=corr(Y,Z)=corr(Z,X)=r\mathrm{corr}(X,Y) = \mathrm{corr}(Y,Z) = \mathrm{corr}(Z,X) = r. What is the full set of values rr can take? Then generalize to nn desks.

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