Singular abelian covers of algebraic surfaces (Q1416704)

The author applies the theory of abelian covers [\textit{R. Pardini}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 417, 191--213 (1991; Zbl 0721.14009)] to construct some examples of surfaces of general type, the most interesting of which is a surface with \(p_g=4\), \(K^2=31\) and birational canonical map. The examples are constructed as desingularizations of singular abelian covers of \({\mathbb P}^1\times{\mathbb P}^1\).