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Surfaces of general type with q=2 are rigidified

Algebraic Geometry 2017-12-07 v4

Abstract

Let SS be a minimal smooth projective surface of general type with irregularity q=2q=2. We show that, if SS has a nontrivial holomorphic automorphism acting trivially on the cohomology with rational coefficients, then it is a surface isogenous to a product. As a consequence of this geometric characterization, one infers that no nontrivial automorphism of surfaces of general type with q=2q=2 (which are not necessarily minimal) can be homotopic to the identity. In particular, such surfaces are rigidified in the sense of Fabrizio Catanese.

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@article{arxiv.1505.03929,
  title  = {Surfaces of general type with q=2 are rigidified},
  author = {Wenfei Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03929},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

11 pages; Theorem 1.2 in the preliminary and Remark 3.2 are added; to appear in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics