Kernels of polarizations of abelian varieties over finite fields

zbMATH Open0911.11031arXiv2001.05111MaRDI QIDQ4895644FDOQ4895644

Authors: Everett W. Howe 

Publication date: 5 May 1999

Abstract: Suppose $C$ is an isogeny class of abelian varieties over a finite field $k$. In this paper we give a partial answer to the question of which finite group schemes over $k$ occur as kernels of polarizations of varieties in $C$. We show that there is an element $I_C$ of a finite two-torsion group that determines which Jordan-H"older isomorphism classes of finite commutative group schemes over $k$ contain kernels of polarizations. We indicate how the two-torsion group can be computed from the characteristic polynomial of the Frobenius endomorphism of the varieties in $C$, and we give some relatively weak sufficient conditions for the element $I_C$ to be zero. Using these conditions, we show that every isogeny class of simple odd-dimensional abelian varieties over a finite field contains a principally polarized variety. As a step in the proofs of these theorems, we prove that if $K$ is a CM-field and $A$ is a central simple $K$-algebra with an involution of the second kind, then every totally positive real element of $K$ is the reduced norm of a positive symmetric element of $A$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05111

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zbMATH Keywords

finite group schemesCM-fieldprincipally polarized varietyisogeny class of abelian varietieskernels of polarizations of varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over finite and local fields (11G25) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Arithmetic ground fields for abelian varieties (14K15) Isogeny (14K02)

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