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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2014
We consider the distribution of $p$ -power group schemes among the torsion of abelian varieties over finite fields of characteristic
$p$ , as follows. Fix natural numbers
$g$ and
$n$ , and let
${\it\xi}$ be a non-supersingular principally quasipolarized Barsotti–Tate group of level
$n$ . We classify the
$\mathbb{F}_{q}$ -rational forms
${\it\xi}^{{\it\alpha}}$ of
${\it\xi}$ . Among all principally polarized abelian varieties
$X/\mathbb{F}_{q}$ of dimension
$g$ with
$X[p^{n}]_{\bar{\mathbb{F}}_{q}}\cong {\it\xi}_{\bar{\mathbb{F}}_{q}}$ , we compute the frequency with which
$X[p^{n}]\cong {\it\xi}^{{\it\alpha}}$ . The error in our estimate is bounded by
$D/\sqrt{q}$ , where
$D$ depends on
$g$ ,
$n$ , and
$p$ , but not on
${\it\xi}$ .