Hasse–Weil bound for abelian varieties

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The Hasse–Weil bound for abelian varieties is a fundamental result in arithmetic geometry that gives sharp estimates for the number of rational points on abelian varieties over finite fields in terms of their dimension and the field size.

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instanceOf result in number theory
theorem in arithmetic geometry
appliesTo abelian varieties over finite fields
concerns distribution of rational points on abelian varieties
number of rational points over finite fields
connectedTo Honda–Tate theory NERFINISHED
Weil’s proof of the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields
domain finite fields
expressedInTermsOf Weil polynomial NERFINISHED
characteristic polynomial of Frobenius
field algebraic geometry
arithmetic geometry
arithmetic of abelian varieties
generalizes Hasse bound for elliptic curves NERFINISHED
gives estimate for number of F_q-rational points
sharp upper and lower bounds for point counts
hasConsequence constraints on possible zeta functions of abelian varieties over finite fields
inequalities for traces of Frobenius
historicalContext developed in the mid 20th century
implies absolute values of Frobenius eigenvalues equal q^{1/2}
finiteness of isogeny classes with fixed dimension and field
point counts are close to q^g for dimension g
isToolFor bounding error terms in point count estimates
explicit point counting algorithms
mathematicalSubjectClassification 11G10
14G15
namedAfter André Weil NERFINISHED
Helmut Hasse NERFINISHED
parameterDependsOn dimension of the abelian variety
eigenvalues of Frobenius acting on Tate module
size of the finite field
refinedBy Serre–Tate results on abelian varieties over finite fields NERFINISHED
relatedTo L-functions of abelian varieties
zeta function of an abelian variety
specialCase Hasse–Weil bound for curves via Jacobians NERFINISHED
typeOf Weil-type estimate
usedIn classification of abelian varieties over finite fields
coding theory
construction of algebraic geometric codes
cryptography based on abelian varieties
estimates for rational points on curves
study of isogeny classes of abelian varieties
usesConcept Frobenius endomorphism NERFINISHED
Riemann hypothesis for varieties over finite fields NERFINISHED
Weil conjectures NERFINISHED
Weil numbers NERFINISHED
eigenvalues of Frobenius
ℓ-adic cohomology NERFINISHED

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Hasse bound for elliptic curves generalization Hasse–Weil bound for abelian varieties