Multiple realizations of varieties as ball quotient compactifications (Q737128)

It is an interesting question to decide which projective surfaces are compactifications of ball quotients. Based on Hizebruch's construction, the authors give arbitrarily large families of distinct ball quotients with biholomorphic smooth toroidal compactifications. More precisely, they show that for any natural number \(n\), there exists a smooth projective surface \(X\) and pairwise nonisomorphic quotients \(Y_1, \dots, Y_n\) of the two-dimensional ball by neat lattices \(\Gamma_1,\dots, \Gamma_n\in \mathrm{PU}(2,1)\) such that \(X\) is a smooth toroidal compactification of \(Y_i\) for each \(1\leq i\leq n\).