Superspecial abelian varieties over finite prime fields (Q456828)

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Superspecial abelian varieties over finite prime fields
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    Superspecial abelian varieties over finite prime fields (English)
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    16 October 2012
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    An abelian variety defined over a field \(K\) of characteristic \(p\) is called superspecial if it is isomorphic over the algebraic closure \(\overline{K}\) to a product of supersingular elliptic curves. Fix a supersingular elliptic curve \(E_0/{\mathbb F}_p\) (with an extra condition if \(p = 2\) or \(3\)). In the paper under consideration, the number of \(g\)-dimensional superspecial abelian varieties \(A\) over \({\mathbb F}_p\) is determined such that there is an \({\mathbb F}_p\)-isogeny from \(E_0^g\) to \(A\). The result, Theorem 1.1, relates the number in question with the class number of the imaginary quadratic field \({\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{-p})\), and thereby generalizes a classical result of Deuring for the case \(g=1\), The proof is by algebraic means and uses the module theory of a certain not necessarily maximal order in a semisimple commutative \({\mathbb Q}\)-algebra. Besides the proof, the article presents a condensed but highly valuable discussion of similar problems: relations with weighted/unweighted class numbers, geometric and arithmetic mass formulas, supersingular instead of superspecial abelian varieties, with or without polarizations, Drinfeld modules, etc.
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    superspecial abelian variety
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    supersingular abelian variety
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    class numbers
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