Automorphisms of rigid hypersurfaces with separable variables

Abstract

Consider a polynomial F such that each variable appears in exactly one monomial. The hypersurface defined by the polynomial F is called a hypersurface with separable variables. A variety is called rigid if there are no nontrivial actions of the additive group of the ground field on it. If a variety is rigid, then it is known that in the automorphism group there exists a unique maximal torus. We describe the automorphism group of a rigid hypersurface with separable variables, in particular we show that it is a finite extension of the maximal torus.