A remark on the geography of surfaces with birational canonical morphisms (Q1814111)

Let \(S\) be a surface of general type over \(\mathbb{C}\) and let \(\chi\), \(c^ 2_ 1\) be the Chern numbers of \(S\). If we assume that the canonical map of \(S\) is birational, then we have the following inequalities: \(3\chi- 10\leq c^ 2_ 1\leq 9\chi\), \(\chi>0\), \(c^ 2_ 1>0\). For every pair \(x,y\) of natural numbers \(3x-10\leq y\leq 8x-78\), the author constructs a surface of general type \(S\) with \(x=\chi\), \(y=c^ 2_ 1\) and such that the canonical map of \(S\) is birational. Examples of surfaces of general type with invariants in the same region had already been constructed by Persson, but the canonical map of those was 2 to 1. It seems that birationality should be ``the rule'', so that the author's examples are interesting from this point of view. --- The examples are constructed as resolution of some singular genus 3 fibrations with elliptic singularities of type \(\tilde E_ 7\). An explicit method of resolution is described.