Principally polarized ordinary abelian varieties over finite fields

Everett W. Howe: Principally polarized ordinary abelian varieties over finite fields, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 (1995) 2361–2401, MR 96i:11065, Zbl 0859.14016.

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This paper is essentially my thesis. I use a theorem of Deligne that gives a down-to-earth description of the category of ordinary abelian varieties over a finite field to give a criterion for deciding whether or not a given isogeny class of ordinary abelian varieties contains a principally polarized variety. At the end of the paper I give what I believe to be the first examples of isogeny classes of abelian varieties of dimension greater than 3 that do not contain principally polarized varieties.