On a general principle in geometry that leads to functional equations (Q1312254)

One wishes many survey papers would be of this kind, shedding new light on results, putting them into a new framework. The author reverses, in a sense, Felix Klein's ``Erlanger Programm''. Given a numerical (distance, area, angle, etc.) or geometric (straight line, plane, circle, orthogonality, etc.) object, the problem is to determine those transformations (functions) under which the object is invariant on the whole domain or on part of it. This leads to functional equations. The author presents several results on \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) (mainly for \(n=2\) or 3) and poses many intriguing problems, mainly in the case of geometries over fields.