Abstract
We study a class of smooth projective \(3\) -folds admitting wild automorphisms and relate this subject with smooth complete families of Fano varieties. Using isotriviality of some of the latter families we show that certain triples \((X,f,\sigma)\) do not exist, where \(X\) is a smooth projective \(3\) -fold, \(\sigma\) is its (wild) automorphism and \(f:X\longrightarrow C\) is a \(\sigma\) -compatible morphism onto a curve. This settles the most involved case in a conjecture of Z. Reichstein, D. Rogalski, and J.J. Zhang.