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Oort's conjecture on automorphisms of generic supersingular abelian varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2026-03-09 v1

Abstract

We prove Oort's conjecture that generically on the supersingular locus of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties of genus g and in characteristic p, the automorphism group of the universal principally polarized abelian variety consists only of ±1\pm 1, unless g=2 or 3 and p=2. On the way, we provide an explicit description of the a=1-locus in the Rapoport-Zink space of principally polarized supersingular p-divisible groups of any dimension g. We also prove analogous results for generic automorphism groups on moduli spaces of supersingular p-divisible groups with and without polarization.

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@article{arxiv.2603.06033,
  title  = {Oort's conjecture on automorphisms of generic supersingular abelian varieties},
  author = {Eva Viehmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.06033},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages