Hypersurfaces Fixed by Equiaffinities

In this note we state and prove the followingAny equiaffinity acting on the points of an n-dimensional vector space (n ≥2) leaves invariant the members of a one parameter family of hypersurfaces defined by polynomials p(xl…,xn)=c of degree m ≤n.The theorem, restricted to the real plane, appears to have been discovered almost simultaneously by Coxeter [4] and Komissaruk [5]. The former paper presents an elegant geometric argument, showing that the result follows from the converse of Pascal's theorem. The present approach is more closely related to that of [5], in which the transformations are reduced to a canonical form.