On the period map for surfaces with \(K^ 2_ S=2\), \(p_ g=1\), \(q=0\) and torsion \({\mathbb{Z}}/2{\mathbb{Z}}\) (Q800434)

\textit{A. N. Todorov} [Invent Math. 63, 287-304 (1981; Zbl 0457.14016)] gave some counter-examples to the global Torelli problem by exhibiting some special surfaces, with \(q=0\), \(p_ g=1\), and \(K^ 2=2\), for which the period map had some positive dimensional fibre. - Subsequently, the reviewer and \textit{O. Debarre} (in a preprint of 1982) studied those surfaces, showing in particular that they fall into two families, the ones with trivial fundamental group, and the ones with group \({\mathbb{Z}}/2\). These last have as (unramified) double cover weighted complete intersections of type (4,4) in the projective space of weights (1,1,1,2,2). Using this explicit description, the author applies Griffiths' cohomological criterion plus hard computations to show that the general fibre of the period map has dimension 1.