Solution

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For , dilation by maps to , because . Its inverse is dilation by , so all nonempty positive level manifolds are diffeomorphic.
A negative level need not be diffeomorphic to a positive one, even when both are nonempty. For , is connected (parametrize it by ), whereas has two components, according to . Thus the answer for opposite signs is no. If is odd, the additional symmetry does interchange opposite levels up to scaling, but the question allows even degrees.

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