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The geometry of spaces admitting homogeneous contact transformations was initiated by \textit{L. P. Eisenhart} [Ann. Math. (2) 49, 227-254 (1948; Zbl 0030.21902)] and has been intensively studied by many authors. Let \(M\) be a smooth manifold and \(T^*M\) (resp. \(T^*_0M\)) its cotangent bundle (resp. cotangent bundle with the zero section removed). A connection pair \(\varphi\) on the cotangent bundle \(T^*M\) is an almost product structure \((\varphi^2={\roman {Id}})\) such that \({\roman {Ker}(\roman {Id}}-\varphi)\) is supplementary to the vertical bundle \(VT^*M\). The vector subbundle \(HT^*M={\roman {Ker}(\roman {Id}}-\varphi)\) is called the horizontal subbundle. There is a unique nonlinear connection \(\Gamma (\Gamma ^2={\roman {Id}, \roman {Ker}(\roman {Id}}+ \Gamma)=VT^*M)\) associated to \(\varphi\) such that \({\roman {Ker}(\roman {Id}}-\varphi)={\roman {Ker} (\roman {Id}}-\Gamma)\). A diffeomorphism \(f\) of \(T^*_0M\) is called a homogeneous contact transformation if the canonical one-form \(\alpha=p_idx^i\) of \(T^*_0M\) is invariant under \(f\). In this paper the authors use a modern approach to study the geometry of homogeneous contact transformations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0931.00037].