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Counting abelian varieties over finite fields in a given isogeny class

Let $f(x) \in \mathbb Z[x]$ be a monic polynomial of degree $g$ with all roots having absolute value $\sqrt{q}$. How many principally polarized abelian varieties over $\mathbb F_q$ have $f(x)$ as the characteristic polynomial of Frobenius?

By "how many" I mean the groupoid cardinality - the sum over all isomorphism classes of $1$ over the order of the group of polarization-preservering automorphisms.

Is there a simple formula for it, like there is in the $g=1$ case (at least if you consider $L$-functions simple)?

I found some description of this set in the literature but I wasn't able to extract a formula from it.

Even if no formula exists, I would be happy to have an upper bound.

Will Sawin
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