On modular ball-quotient surfaces of Kodaira dimension one (Q555222)

Summary: Let \(\Gamma \subset \mathbf{PU}(2, 1)\) be a lattice which is not compact, of finite covolume with respect to the Bergman metric and acting freely on the open unit ball \textbf{B} \(\subset \mathbb C^2\). Then the toroidal compactification \(X = \overline{\Gamma\setminus\mathbf{B}}\) is a projective smooth surface with elliptic compactification divisor \(D = X\setminus(\Gamma\setminus\mathbf{B})\). In this short note we discover a new class of unramifed ball quotients \(X\). We consider ball quotients \(X\) with \(\text{kod}(X) = 1\) and \(h^1(X, \mathcal O_X) = 1\). We prove that each minimal surface with finite Mordell-Weil group in the class described admits an étale covering which is a pull-back of \(X_6(6)\). Here \(X_6(6)\) denotes the elliptic modular surface parametrizing elliptic curves \(E\) with 6-torsion points \(x, y\) which generate \(E[ 6]\).