Title: Endomorphism Algebras of Abelian varieties with special reference to Superelliptic Jacobians,
Abstract: This is (mostly) a survey article. We use an information about Galois
properties of points of small order on an abelian variety in order to describe
its endomorphism algebra over an algebraic closure of the ground field. We
discuss in detail applications to jacobians of cyclic covers of the projective
line.