Abstract

We study automorphisms of quasi-smooth hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces, extending classical results for smooth hypersurfaces in projective space to the weighted setting. We establish effective criteria for when a power of a prime number can occur as the order of an automorphism, and we derive explicit bounds on the possible prime orders. A key role is played by a weighted analogue of the classical Klein hypersurface, which we show realizes the maximal prime order of an automorphism under suitable arithmetic conditions. Our results generalize earlier work by Gonzalez-Aguilera and Liendo.