Polarized surfaces of low degrees with respect to the delta-genus (Q1908309)

We classify such polarized surfaces that a certain equality holds between the self-intersection number and the delta-genus and that the complete linear system has finite base locus and defines a non-birational map. The surface obtained by blowing up a point of such a surface turns out to be a double cover of a desingularization of a surface with delta-genus zero. We classify these surfaces according to the shape of the inverse image of the image of the exceptional curve. Six of the classes consist of the fiber spaces over the projective line and the other class consists of irrational ruled surfaces. Conversely, we show the existence of polarized surfaces in each of the seven classes.