Rectification of spheres of co-dimension 1 and 2 in \(\mathbb R^n\) (Q1001992)

Motivated by problems in nomography, \textit{A. G. Khovanskii} proved [Sib. Mat. Zh. 21, No.~4, 221--226 (1980; Zbl 0454.53001)]: If a rectifiable pencil \(S\) of circles in \(\mathbb R^2\) passing through the origin and containing at least seven circles, then all circles have a common point different from the origin. Hereby a rectification of \(S\) is a germ \(\Phi\) of a diffeomorphism \((\mathbb R^2,0)\to (\mathbb R^2,0)\) such that the image \(\Phi(s)\) of each circle \(s\in S\) belongs to a straight line. More precisely \(\Phi(s)\) denotes the restriction of \(\Phi\) to a germ of such a circle. In a former paper [Rocky Mt. J. Math. 35, No.~3, 881--899 (2005; Zbl 1083.53005)], the author generalized the result to circles in \(\mathbb R^3\). The present note treats the problem in case of spheres of codimension 1 and 2 in \(\mathbb R^n\).