An isogeny is a surjection of algebraic groups that has a finite kernel. For abelian varieties, this is equivalently a rational map between groups of the same dimension that preserves the neutral element (which implies that it is a group homomorphism).
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Examples of sporadic (exceptional) isogenies from spin groups onto orthogonal groups are discussed in
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