Let $q$ be a power of a prime $p$. Deligne's paper "Variétés abéliennes ordinaires sur un corps fini" seems to describe an equivalence of categories between
- ordinary abelian varieties over a finite field $\mathbf F_q$,
- complex abelian varieties equipped with an endomorphism $\pi$ which is a $q$-Weil number.
Is that true? The paper actually states the equivalence of categories between (1) and a category of free Z-modules. It sketches the relation with complex abelian varieties, but does it remain an equivalence of categories?
This question has been discussed a bit here: Canonical lifts from $\mathbb F_q$ and CM-theory. The answer seems to be "yes". I still ask this question because of the following, which looks like a contradiction to me:
Fix a $q$-Weil number $\pi$, let $K = \mathbf Q(\pi)$, and $\mathcal O_K$ the maximal order in $K$. Then, $\mathrm{Cl}(K)$ acts freely and transitively on the set of isomorphism classes of complex abelian varieties with endomorphism ring $\mathcal O_K$. On the other hand, this action of $\mathrm{Cl}(K)$ on the abelian varieties over $\mathbf F_q$ with endomorphism ring $\mathcal O_K$ is still free but not necessarily transitive (Waterhouse, Abelian varieties over finite fields, Theorem 5.3: the number of orbits is $2^s$ where $s$ is the number of primes factors of $p$ in $K_0$ staying prime in $K$, and $K_0$ is the real subfield of $K$).
Did I misinterpret Deligne's paper? Or is this $s$ actually always 0?