Published March 2026 | Version Published
Journal Article

Abelian varieties with real multiplication: Classification and isogeny classes over finite fields

  • 1. ROR icon The Ohio State University
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a classification of certain points on Hilbert modular varieties over finite fields under a mild assumption on Newton polygon. Furthermore, we use this characterization to prove estimates for the size of isogeny classes.

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Acknowledgement

Our approach owes a substantial intellectual debt to the work of Oswal and Shankar. We are very grateful to Ananth Shankar for introducing this question to us and for his help throughout the project. We wish to thank Nathan Kaplan and Ziquan Yang for helpful conversations. We thank Jordan Ellenberg for many useful comments on the introduction. Finally, we thank the referee for the comments that greatly improved the exposition of the paper. 

Funding

We were partially supported by NSF grant DMS-2100436.

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Related works

Is new version of
Discussion Paper: arXiv:2308.11105 (arXiv)

Funding

National Science Foundation
DMS-2100436

Dates

Accepted
2025-08-12
Available
2025-09-05
Available online
Available
2025-09-16
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