# Current

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• 2017-05-30
10:00
Salle 385
Isogeny graphs of ordinary abelian varieties
Fix a prime number $\ell$. Graphs of isogenies of degree a power of $\ell$ are well-understood for elliptic curves, but not for higher-dimensional abelian varieties. We study the case of absolutely simple ordinary abelian varieties over a finite field. We analyse graphs of so-called $\mathfrak l$-isogenies, resolving that, in arbitrary dimension, their structure is similar, but not identical, to the volcanoes’’ occurring as graphs of isogenies of elliptic curves. Specializing to the case of principally polarizable abelian surfaces, we then exploit this structure to describe graphs of a particular class of isogenies known as $(\ell, \ell)$-isogenies. These results lead to new, provable algorithms to navigate in isogeny graphs, with consequences for the CM-method in genus 2, for computing explicit isogenies, and for the random self-reducibility of the discrete logarithm problem in genus 2 cryptography.
• 2017-06-06
10:00
Salle 385
• 2017-06-13
10:00
Salle 385
Bernhard Schmidt (Singapore)