Solution

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A possible center must be a fixed point, so . Let and . The determinant is
when is not an integer multiple of . The unique center is therefore
The fixed point equation implies , whence
Relative to , this is precisely a planar rotation through . This also explains the excluded case: when , is a translation, with no fixed point unless .

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