Burniat-type surfaces and a new family of surfaces with \(p_g=0,K^2=3\) (Q1945105)

Burniat surfaces are minimal surfaces of general type with geometric genus \(p_g=0\) and self-intersection of the canonical divisor \(K^2=2,\dots,6\) whose birational models were constructed by \textit{P. Burniat} [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 71, 1--24 (1966; Zbl 0144.20203)] as bidouble covers of the plane. Later \textit{M. Inoue} [Tokyo J. Math. 17, No. 2, 295--319 (1994; Zbl 0836.14020)] described these surfaces as \(\mathbb Z_2^3\)-quotients of a hypersurface in a product of three elliptic curves. In the paper under review this construction is explored in more generality. The notions of \textit{primary Burniat type surface} and \textit{\(4\)-nodal Burniat type surface} are introduced and it is shown that 1) a primary Burniat type surface is a primary Burniat surface (\(K^2=6\)) and 2) \(4\)-nodal Burniat type surfaces are minimal surfaces of general type with \(p_g=0\) and \(K^2=3\) yielding three different topological types; one of these realizes a new fundamental group of order \(16\).