“…Despite these and other successful results on the description of automorphism groups of quantum algebras, e.g. [2,3,9,14,19,20,21], there is yet much to be done. For example, regarding the quantized enveloping algebras U q (g + ), where g is a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra and g + is a maximal nilpotent subalgebra of g, there is a conjecture of Andruskiewitsch and Dumas [4] describing the automorphism group of U q (g + ) as a semidirect product of a torus of rank equal to the rank of g by a finite group corresponding to the automorphisms of the Dynkin diagram of g. So far, only particular cases of this conjecture have been verified, for g of rank at most 3 [9,3,19,21].…”