Surfaces with canonical map of degree three and \(K^2=3p_g-5\) (Q1371124)

In this paper, minimal smooth algebraic surfaces with canonical map of degree three and \(K^2=3p_g-5\) are investigated. It is shown that these surfaces have \(q=0\) and \(p_g=3\) or \(p_g=4\). Then the main theorems claim that if \(S\) is such a surface, then there exists a sublinear system in \(| K_S| \) which is a rational pencil of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 3 with a simple base point \(P'\) and such that the relative canonical model of the fibration induced on the blowing up \(S'\) of \(S\) in \(P'\) is the complete intersection of two hypersurfaces in the projective space of a complete linear system. Furthermore, it is shown that the moduli space of surfaces with \(K_S^2=7\), \(p_g=4\), \(q=0\) is irreducible and unirational of dimension 35. Similarly the moduli space of surfaces with \(K^2=4\), \(p_g=3\) and \(\deg \phi_{K}=3\) is irreducible and unirational of dimension 29.