Super-Isolated Abelian Varieties

Abstract

We call an abelian variety over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ super-isolated if its ($\mathbb{F}_q$-rational) isogeny class contains a single isomorphism class. In this paper, we use the Honda-Tate theorem to characterize super-isolated ordinary simple abelian varieties by certain algebraic integers. Our main result is that for a fixed dimension $g \geq 3$, there are finitely many such varieties.