Supersingular abelian varieties and quaternion hermitian lattices (Theory and Applications of Supersingular Curves and Supersingular Abelian Varieties)

Abstract

This note gives a survey on relations between the theory of quaternion hermitian lattices and that of supersingular abelian varieties, including relations between polarizations, moduli loci, automorphism groups, curves with many rational points, and class numbers, type numbers, lattice automorphisms, algebraic modular forms. For readers' convenience, we give some explicit formulas for related numbers and give a slightly big list of related references. The last section is an announcement of new results on supersingular loci of low dimensions.