Stability of the Albanese fibration on the Cartwright-Steger surface (Q2233609)

In this work it is shown that the Albanese fibration of the Cartwright-Steger surface is stable, answering a problem posed in [\textit{D. I. Cartwright} et al., J. Algebr. Geom. 26, No. 4, 655--689 (2017; Zbl 1375.14120)]. It had been shown in (loc.cit.) that otherwise the fibration would have had a single singular fiber, and its singular point would have been a point fixed by the group of automorphisms of the surface, a cyclic group of order \(3\), with local action of type \(\frac13(1,2)\). The surface contains six such points. Using the explicit equations for this surface obtained by Borisov and Yeung the authors show that this surface admits a antiholomorphic involution acting on these six points, dividing them in three orbits. Moreover they show that this antiholomorphic involution maps each fibre of the Albanese fibration onto a fiber of the Albanese fibration, thus providing a contradiction. The same result has been independently achieved in [\textit{C. Rito}, Int. J. Math. 28, No. 6, Article ID 1750041, 10 p. (2017; Zbl 1388.14115)].