A proof of the Andre-Oort conjecture for A_g

Abstract

We give a proof of the Andr\'e-Oort conjecture for $\mathcal{A}_g$ - the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties. In particular, we show that a recently proven `averaged' version of the Colmez conjecture yields lower bounds for Galois orbits of CM points. The Andr\'e-Oort conjecture then follows from previous work of Pila and the author.