It is proved that the classical Laplace transform is a continuous valuation which is positively GL(n) covariant and logarithmic translation covariant. Conversely, these properties turn out to be sucient to characterize this transform.
All SL(n) covariant vector valuations on convex polytopes in R^n are completely classified without any continuity assumptions. The moment vector turns out to be the only such valuation if n ≥ 3, while two new functionals show up in dimension two.