%0 Journal Article %T On finiteness of endomorphism rings of abelian varieties %A Chia-Fu Yu %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X The endomorphism ring End(A) of an abelian variety A is an order in a semi-simple algebra over Q. The co-index of End(A) is the index to a maximal order containing it. We show that for abelian varieties of fixed dimension over any algebraically closed field of characteristic p>0, the p-exponents of the co-indices of their endomorphism rings are bounded. We also give a few applications to this finiteness result. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0019v5