On canonical fibrations of algebraic surfaces (Q1330990)

Let \(S\) be a smooth complex projective surface of general type and let \(f\) be its canonical map, i.e. the map associated with the canonical system \(|K_S |\) of \(S\). Assume that \(\dim f(S) = 1\) and let \(S @>g>>B \to f(S)\) be the Stein factorization of \(f\). In view of Beauville's result \(g\) is a fibration whose general fibre \(F\) has genus \(g(F) = 2,3,4,5\), under some assumption. The paper under review is a contribution to the study of \(g\) especially when \(g(f) = 4,5\) and to the problem of finding the largest \(c(g(F))\) such that \(K^2_S \geq c(g(F)) \cdot h^0 (K_S) +\) constant.