Some (big) irreducible components of the moduli space of minimal surfaces of general type with \(p_{g} = q = 1\) and \(K^{2} = 4\) (Q1030948)

Surfaces \(S\) of general type with \(p_g=q=1\) and \(K^2\leq 3\) were classified \textit{F. Catanese}, \textit{C. Ciliberto} and the author [in: C.I.M.E. 1977: Algebraic surfaces, Liguori, Napoli, 267--284 (1981), Academic Press. Symp. Math. 32, 49--79 (1991; Zbl 0828.14024); J. Algebr. Geom. 2, No.~3, 389--411 (1993; Zbl 0791.14015); Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 39, No. 6, 1011--1049 (2006; Zbl 1125.14023)]. For these surfaces the Albanese morphism is a fibration onto an elliptic curve. In this paper under review, the next case is considered: \(K_S^2=4\) and general Albanese fibre of genus \(2\), under the technical assumption that the direct image of the bicanonical sheaf by the Albanese morphism is a direct sum of line bundles. It is shown that the algebraic moduli space has \(8\) unirational components (having dimension bigger than expected) which are irreducible components of the moduli space of minimal surfaces of general type (this is surprisingly because the above assumption on the bicanonical sheaf is closed).