A ring homomorphism $\varphi : F \to F$ fixes the coefficients of a Weierstrass curve $W$ if it acts as the identity on the five defining coefficients $a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4, a_6$. This is the condition needed for $\varphi$ to descend to a map of curves.
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A coefficient-fixing ring homomorphism commutes with two-variable evaluation of the defining polynomial of $W$: $f_W(\varphi x, \varphi y) = \varphi(f_W(x, y))$.
A coefficient-fixing endomorphism sends solutions of the Weierstrass equation to solutions: if $W(x, y) = 0$ then $W(\varphi x, \varphi y) = 0$.
A coefficient-fixing endomorphism commutes with two-variable evaluation of the $x$-partial derivative $\partial_x W$ of the defining polynomial.
A coefficient-fixing endomorphism commutes with two-variable evaluation of the $y$-partial derivative $\partial_y W$ of the defining polynomial.
An injective coefficient-fixing endomorphism preserves nonsingularity: if $(x, y)$ is a nonsingular point on $W$, so is $(\varphi x, \varphi y)$.
The induced self-map on the affine points $W(\overline{F})$ of a Weierstrass curve given by an injective coefficient-fixing endomorphism: it fixes the point at infinity and applies $\varphi$ coordinatewise to affine points.
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The induced map sends the point at infinity to itself.
The induced map sends an affine point $(x, y)$ to $(\varphi x, \varphi y)$.
The $n$-th iterate of Frobenius on an $F$-algebra $L$ fixes the image of any element of $F = \mathbb{F}_{p^n}$, because by Fermat's little theorem $a^{p^n} = a$ for $a \in F$.
The base change of a Weierstrass curve $W/F$ along an algebra inclusion $F \hookrightarrow L$: the same equation viewed over the larger field $L$.
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The $n$-th Frobenius iterate $x \mapsto x^{p^n}$ on $L$ fixes the coefficients of the base change to $L$ of any curve defined over $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$, since those coefficients lie in the prime-field-fixed subfield.
The Frobenius endomorphism on points of $W_L$ for $W/\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$ (Definition 4.24): the self-map of points sending $(x, y) \mapsto (x^{p^n}, y^{p^n})$. This is the geometric Frobenius whose fixed points are the $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$-rational points.
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Frobenius fixes the point at infinity.
Frobenius sends an affine point $(x, y)$ on the base change of $W$ to $(x^{p^n}, y^{p^n})$.