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For a nonidentity transvection ${\tau }_{f,d}$, take $e_1=d$ and choose $e_2$ with $f(e_2)=1$. Complete $e_1$ to a basis of $\ker f$ using $e_3,\dots ,e_n$. Then $e_1,e_2,e_3,\dots ,e_n$ is a basis of $V$, and the matrix of the transvection is $I+E_{12}$: it sends $e_2$ to $e_2+e_1$ and fixes the other basis vectors. Consequently all nonidentity transvections form one conjugacy class in $\mathrm{GL}(V)$. This matrix has determinant one, and conjugation preserves determinant, soFor $n\ge 3$, let $k$ be any GL-conjugator carrying one transvection to another. In an adapted basis for the first, the matrix $c=\mathrm{diag}(1,1,s,1,\dots ,1)$ centralizes it and has determinant $s$. Set $s=(\det k{)}^{-1}$. Then $kc\in \mathrm{SL}(V)$ gives the same conjugation as $k$. This proves the stronger transvection conjugacy over a finite field resultThe extra coordinate is essential to this determinant adjustment; no such claim is required in dimension two.