Does $\text{Aut}(E)\cong E$ hołd for elliptic curves?

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Let $E/K$ be an elliptic curve over a field $K$. Let $Aut(E)$ be a group of all automorphism of $E$ as algebraic curves. Then, does $AutE\cong E$ holds ?

There is a natural injection $E\to \text{Aut}(E)$ given by $P\mapsto \{E\to E, Q\mapsto Q+P\}$.

To prove this is surjective, we should prove every automorpshims of $E$ is given by translation.

Background question:

Let $\text{Aut}(E,+)$ be an set of all isomorphism which commutes with $E$ action to $E$ itself (as trivial torsor).

Then, it is known that $\text{Aut}(E,+)\cong E$

(cf. lem$1.3$ of https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606580).

But I wonder why condition of 'commute with action' needed to prove this isomorphism, so I asked this question.

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The isomorphism $AutE\cong E$ is never true. First of all, any elliptic curve also has an inversion map, sending $P$ to $-P$, which is not given by any translation. There also exist elliptic curves with complex multiplication, which have additional automorphisms besides these, though these are only finitely many (at most $24$ in characteristic $2$, $12$ in characteristic $3$ and at most $6$ otherwise). See Silverman, section III.10 for a discussion of these additional automorphisms.

Any automorphism of an elliptic curve fixing the origin is an isogeny, see Silverman section III.4. Therefore the automorphism group of $E$ as an algebraic curve will be the semidirect product of $E$ and the automorphisms of $E$ as an elliptic curve.