Unirational quasi-elliptic surfaces in characteristic 3 (Q1239200)

A non-singular projective surface is called ``quasi-elliptic''; if it admits a morphism \(f\) to a curve \(C\), where almost all the fibres of \(f\) are irreducible singular rational curves of arithmetic genus one. By a theorem of Tate such a surface can exist only in the rase where the characteristic of the groundfieldis 2 or 3. The author considers the rase of a quasi-elliptic surface \(X\) of characteristic 3 for which \(f\) admits a rational section, and \(X\) is unirational (equivalently: \(C\) is rational). He computes some of the basic invariants of there surfaces, under further hypotheses.