A surface of maximal canonical degree (Q2402840)

Let \(M\) be a minimal surface of general type. It is known since the 1970s from [\textit{A. Beauville}, Invent. Math. 55, 121--140 (1979; Zbl 0403.14006)] that the maximum possible value of the degree \(d\) of the canonical map of \(M \) is \(36\) and the highest canonical degree known earlier for a minimal surface of general type was 24 by {[\textit C. Rito}, Int. J. Math. 28, No. 6, Article ID 1750041, 10 p. (2017; Zbl 1388.14115)]. In this paper the author constructs a surface with canonical degree \(d=36\). The surface \(M\) of the example has geometric genus \(h^0(S,\Omega^2_M)=3\), irregularity \(h^0(S,\Omega^1_M)=0\) and \(K_M^2=36\), and it is constructed as unramified bidouble cover of a suitable fake projective plane.