On a number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties over finite fields
Jungin Lee

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the growth of simple abelian varieties over finite fields, showing they dominate the total isogeny classes as dimension increases, contrasting previous findings.
Contribution
It establishes the asymptotic equivalence of simple and all abelian varieties' isogeny classes, revealing simple classes' dominance in high dimensions.
Findings
Logarithmic asymptotics of simple and all isogeny classes are the same.
Ratio of simple to all isogeny classes approaches 1 as dimension grows.
Simple isogeny classes become predominant over non-simple ones in large dimensions.
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties of dimension over a finite field . We prove that the logarithmic asymptotic of is the same as the logarithmic asymptotic of the number of isogeny classes of all abelian varieties of dimension over . We also prove that This suggests that there are much more simple isogeny classes of abelian varieties over of dimension than non-simple ones for sufficiently large , which can be understood as the opposite situation to a main result of Lipnowski and Tsimerman (Duke Math 167:3403-3453, 2018).
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ON A NUMBER OF ISOGENY CLASSES OF SIMPLE ABELIAN VARIETIES OVER FINITE FIELDS
JUNGIN LEE
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties of dimension over a finite field . We prove that the logarithmic asymptotic of is the same as the logarithmic asymptotic of the number of isogeny classes of all abelian varieties of dimension over . We also prove that
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This suggests that there are much more simple isogeny classes of abelian varieties over of dimension than non-simple ones for sufficiently large , which can be understood as the opposite situation to a main result of Lipnowski and Tsimerman (Duke Math 167:3403-3453, 2018).
1 Introduction
An abelian variety over an arbitrary field is isogenous to a product of simple abelian varieties. One can naturally ask about the distribution of the dimensions of simple isogeny factors in the set of isogeny classes of abelian varieties over of given dimension. When is a prime field and a variety is equipped with a principal polarization, there is a nice answer given by M. Lipnowski and J. Tsimerman [3]. Note that we may replace in the proposition below by any constant .
Proposition 1.1**.**
([3], Corollary 5.14) Under the assumption of [3, Conjecture 5.2], for a subset of primes of density at least , the proportion of principally polarized abelian varieties over which admits an isogeny factor for some elliptic curve and approaches as .
The purpose of this article is to answer the question for abelian varieties (without polarization) over a finite field . An interesting point is that if we do not consider polarizations, most of the isogeny classes have a large simple isogeny factor, which is opposite to the case with principal polarizations. In particular, the number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties over is large. We review some background material and summarize the results of this paper in the rest of this section.
Let be an abelian variety over a finite field of dimension . For a prime , there is a bijection
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due to Tate [4] so the -Frobenius endomorphism on corresponds to an endomorphism on a -vector space . Denote its characteristic polynomial by . (It is called the Weil -polynomial.)
Then is independent of the choice of , monic, has integer coefficients, of degree and all of its roots are Weil -numbers (i.e. algebraic integers all of whose -conjugates have an absolute value ) by the Riemann hypothesis (Weil conjecture). By Honda-Tate theorem [2, 4], two abelian varieties and over are isogenous if and only if . This enables us to count the number of isogeny classes of abelian varieties over of given dimension by observing the Weil -polynomials.
Let be the number of isogeny classes of abelian varieties over of dimension . Then by [3, Corollary 2.3] and [1, Lemma 3.3.1], the asymptotic formula for as is given by
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In Section 2, we prove that the number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties over of dimension have the same magnitude.
Theorem 1.2**.**
(Theorem 2.3) Let be the number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties over of dimension . Then
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Section 3 is devoted to the distribution of simple isogeny factors of the isogeny classes of abelian varieties over . Contrary to the case with principal polarizations (given in Proposition 1.1), most of the isogeny classes have a large simple isogeny factor. Precisely, we prove that for any ,
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where is the number of isogeny classes of -dimensional abelian varieties over whose largest simple isogeny factor has dimension at least (see Theorem 3.2).
The main result of this paper is given in Section 4. Its proof is based on (2), (3) and some elementary arguments.
Theorem 1.3**.**
(Theorem 4.1)
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The above theorem suggests that there are much more simple isogeny classes of abelian varieties over of dimension than non-simple ones for sufficiently large . We expect that the following conjecture to be true.
Conjecture 1.4**.**
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2 Number of isogeny classes of simple abelian varieties
Let be the number of isogeny classes of -dimensional simple abelian varieties over . Since
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we only need to consider the lower bound of . We make critical use of the following Lemma of DiPippo and Howe [1], which gives a lower bound for coarsely of the right order of magnitude.
Lemma 2.1**.**
([1], Lemma 3.3.1) Suppose that are integers such that
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and . Then
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is a Weil -polynomial.
Let
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(then ) and
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We want to prove that
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One may try to prove this by proving , but it is not easy to determine whether given is irreducible or not. For example, the constant term of is so Eisensteinβs criterion cannot be applied. Rather than finding a subset of whose size is , we use different method.
Lemma 2.2**.**
Suppose that are integers and
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Then are determined by .
Proof.
For , for some polynomial function , which follows by comparing the coefficients of on both sides. By induction on , one can show that can be represented as a function of . Thus determine and consequently determine . β
Theorem 2.3**.**
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Proof.
Let
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and
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Then clearly . Also for any integer , define
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Then
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so
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Now we provide an upper bound of . For any fixed
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denote
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and
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Then
and
so
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is determined by the choice of and is independent of . It is given by
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For large enough , so
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By Lemma 2.2, an element of is determined by a Weil -polynomial . By [3, Corollary 2.3], the size of is bounded by
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Now we have
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If is sufficiently large, then
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so
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Thus
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and
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so
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β
By the inequality , we have
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Note that this does not imply
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which means that the proportion of isogeny classes of -dimensional abelian varieties over which is simple approaches as . We provide a weaker version of this statement in Section 4.
3 Largest simple isogeny factor
For any , let
(and )
be the set of isogeny classes of -dimensional abelian varieties over whose largest simple isogeny factor has dimension (and ).
Lemma 3.1**.**
Every element of can be represented by for some abelian varieties and over such that .
Proof.
Let and suppose that is isogenous to where are simple, with . If , Then and satisfy the condition. If , then the length of an interval is larger than each of () so there exists a positive integer such that
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In this case and satisfy the statement of the lemma. β
Define
and .
Then we have the following result.
Theorem 3.2**.**
(a) for sufficiently large .
(b) and .
Proof.
(a) By Lemma 3.1, every element of can be represented by such that so
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For , so there is such that for every ,
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Let . Then
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Thus for sufficiently large .
(b) For ,
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so and . β
4 Proportion of simple isogeny classes
In this section we prove the following theorem based on the results of the previous sections. This is the main theorem of our paper.
Theorem 4.1**.**
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Proof.
Let be a constant such that for any , and let . Suppose that there exists such that for sufficiently large . Since
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by Theorem 3.2 and
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there exist and such that
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for any . In (7), is bounded by a linear combination of
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where .
Now we prove that the asymptotic of in Theorem 2.3,
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makes a contradiction. If we replace each in (7) by , then
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and the right side of (8) becomes smaller than for sufficiently large . This suggests that it would be possible to obtain a contradiction by iteratively bounding the numbers by linear combinations of . (For example, is bounded by a linear combination of and is bounded by a linear combination of so is also bounded by a linear combination of .)
For
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there exists such that for any ,
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by Theorem 2.3. Denote
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and
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Then
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for by (7). Now suppose that (so ) and consider the inequality
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For , the coefficient of in the left side of (9) is
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and the coefficient of in the right side of (9) is
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Now (9) provides an upper bound of . It is given by
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(the last inequality is due to the fact that ). By the definition of ,
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so
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which is a contradiction when is large enough. β
Acknowledgments
This work was partially supported by Samsung Science and Technology Foundation (SSTF-BA1802-03) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018R1A4A1023590). The author would like to thank Sungmun Cho, Dong Uk Lee, Donghoon Park and Jacob Tsimerman for their interest and helpful comments. The author also deeply thank the anonymous referee for their comments that improved the exposition of the paper.
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