Automorphisms and quotients of quaternionic fake quadrics (Q2447184)

A \(\mathbb Q\)-homology quadric surface is a normal projective algbraic surfaces with the same Betti number as the quadric surface in \(\mathbb P^3\), i.e., \(b_1=1\) and \(b_2=2\). The article under review is devoted to study the so-called quaternionic fake quadrics, i.e., quadric surfaces of general type of the form \(\Gamma \setminus \mathbb H \times \mathbb H\) with \(\Gamma\) a cocompact irreducible arithmetic lattices in \(\text{Aut}(\mathbb H) \times \text{Aut}(\mathbb H)\), where \(\mathbb H\) is the complex upper half plane. The authors study the possible automorphism group of such a surface, provide examples, and obtain the minimal desingularization of the quotient of a quaternionic fake quadrics by a group of automorphisms, some of which give new examples of surfaces of general type with \(q=p_g=0\).