On the automorphism group of non-necessarily normal affine toric varieties

Abstract: Our main result is the following: let X be a normal affine toric surface without torus factor. Then there exists a non-normal affine toric surface X' with automorphism group isomorphic to the automorphism group of X if and only if X is different from the affine plane. As a tool, we first provide a classification of normalized additive group actions on a non-necessarily normal affine toric variety X of any dimension. Recall that normalized additive group actions on X are in correspondence with homogeneous locally nilpotent derivations on the algebra of regular functions of X. More generally, we provide a classification of homogeneous locally nilpotent derivations on the semigroup algebra of a commutative cancellative monoid.