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It is a well-known theorem of Hurwitz that the automorphism group of a compact Riemann surface of genus g > 1 has order not larger than 84 (g - 1). This was generalized by Bochner who proved that a compact Riemannian manifold with negative Ricci tensor has a finite automorphism group, and Kobayashi who derived the same conclusion for a compact complex manifold with negative first Chern class [K]. The group of birational transformations was studied by Matsumura [M1] who proved that it contains no one-parameter subgroup, provided the manifold has ample canonical bundle.
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Howard, A., Sommese, A.J. (1981). On the Orders of the Automorphism Groups of Certain Projective Manifolds. In: Hano, Ji., Morimoto, A., Murakami, S., Okamoto, K., Ozeki, H. (eds) Manifolds and Lie Groups. Progress in Mathematics, vol 14. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5987-9_7
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