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On surfaces of general type with q=5

Algebraic Geometry 2010-04-01 v1

Abstract

We prove that a complex surface S with irregularity q(S)=5 that has no irrational pencil of genus >1 has geometric genus p_g(S)>7. As a consequence, one is able to classify minimal surfaces S of general type with q(S)=5 and p_g(S)<8. This result is a negative answer, for q=5, to the question asked in arXiv:0811.0390 of the existence of surfaces of general type with irregularity q>3 that have no irrational pencil of genus >1 and with the lowest possible geometric genus p_g=2q-3. This gives some evidence for the conjecture that the only irregular surface with no irrational pencil of genus >1 and p_g=2q-3 is the symmetric product of a genus three curve.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5991,
  title  = {On surfaces of general type with q=5},
  author = {Margarida Mendes Lopes and Rita Pardini and Gian Pietro Pirola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5991},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages.