p-Selmer ranks of CM abelian varieties

Abstract: For an elliptic curve with complex multiplication over a number field, the

p^{i n f t y}

--Selmer rank is even for all

p

. v{C}esnaviv{c}ius proved this using the fact that

E

admits a

p

-isogeny whenever

p

splits in the complex multiplication field, and invoking the cases of the

p

-parity conjecture that he had proven. We give an alternative proof without invoking

p

-parity, and generalise the result to principally polarised abelian varieties with complex multiplication.

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