with a1, a2 > 0. (Indeed any rank 2 matrix can be written as RA with A as above, and R orthogonal. Hence any affine transformation can be written as h ◦ f with f as claimed and g a rigid motion.) Hence, by Caratheodory uniqueness theorem it is sufficient to show that λ2(ASu(α1, α2)) = |det(A)|λ2(Su(α1, α2)) for all u = (u1, u2) ∈ R, αi ∈ R+ (3) Su(α, β) ≡ { x = (x1, x2) ∈ R : x1 ∈ (u1, u1 + α1]...