Folklore conjecture on automorphisms of affine cubic hypersurfaces

Let XX be a smooth cubic hypersurface in the complex projective space~P4\mathbb{P}^4, and let SXS_X be its hyperplane section. The complement XSXX\setminus S_X is an affine cubic hypersurface in~A4\mathbb{A}^4. Suppose that the cubic surface SXS_X is smooth. Folklore conjecture. Then

Aut(XSX)=Aut(X,SX).\mathrm{Aut}\left(X\setminus S_X\right)=\mathrm{Aut}\left(X,S_X\right).

In particular, the group Aut(XSX)\mathrm{Aut}(X\setminus S_X) is finite. This claim concerns the rigidity of automorphisms of affine cubic hypersurfaces obtained as complements of smooth hyperplane sections; the source presents it as folklore and does not provide resolution evidence.

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Ivan Cheltsov, Adrien Dubouloz and Jihun Park, “Super-rigid Affine Fano Varieties”, arXiv:1712.09148 (2017).

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