The cotangent map of surfaces of general type (Q735053)

The author considers complex surfaces of general type whose cotangent bundle \(\Omega_S\) is generated by global sections and whose irregularity \(q\) satisfies \(q>3\). For such surfaces he studies the ampleness of \(\Omega_S\) by looking for curves \(C\hookrightarrow S\) such that \(\Omega_S\otimes \mathcal O_C\) has a quotient bundle isomorphic to \(\mathcal O_C\). Those curves are called non-ample curves and they are the obstruction to the ampleness of the contangent bundle by Gieseker's criterion. Moreover a curve \(C\) on \(S\) in non-ample if and only if there exists a section \(t:C \hookrightarrow\mathbb P(T_S)\) contracted to a point by the cotangent map of the surface \(S\). The point is then to study the image of the cotangent map and its degree. Surfaces with an infinity of non-ample curves are also described.