Quotients of the square of a curve by a mixed action, further quotients and Albanese morphisms

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Abstract: We study mixed surfaces, the minimal resolution S of the singularities of a quotient (C x C)/G of the "square" of a curve by a finite group G of automorphisms that contains elements not preserving the factors. We study them through the "further quotients" by (C x C)/G' where G' contains G. As a first application we prove that if the irregularity is at least 3, then S is also minimal. The result is sharp. The main result is a complete description of the Albanese morphism of S through a determined further quotient (C x C)/G' that is an 'etale cover of the symmetric square of a curve. In particular, if the irregularity of S is at least 2, then S has maximal Albanese dimension. We apply our result to all the "semi-isogenous" mixed surfaces of maximal Albanese dimension constructed by Cancian and Frapporti, relating them with the other constructions appearing in the literature of surfaces of general type having the same invariants.


This paper continues the study of product--quotient surfaces, i.e., surfaces that are the quotient of a product of two algebraic curves by a finite group of automorphisms (cf. [\textit{I. Bauer} and \textit{R. Pignatelli}, Groups Geom. Dyn. 10, No. 1, 319--363 (2016; Zbl 1348.14021); \textit{D. Frapporti} and \textit{R. Pignatelli}, Glasg. Math. J. 57, No. 1, 143--165 (2015; Zbl 1330.14069); \textit{I. Bauer} et al., Am. J. Math. 134, No. 4, 993--1049 (2012; Zbl 1258.14043)]. Here the case of mixed surfaces is looked at. A mixed surface is the minimal resolution S of the singularities of a quotient \((C \times C)/G\) of the square of a curve by a finite group of automorphisms that contains elements not preserving the factors. The main result is a very precise description of the Albanese morphism of \(S\), when \(S\) is irregular (i.e. when \(q(S)>0\)). It is shown that \(S\) has always maximal Albanese dimension when possible (i.e. when \(q(S)\geq 2\)). Then the result is applied to all the semi-isogenous mixed surfaces with \(p_g=q=2\) constructed by \textit{N. Cancian} and \textit{D. Frapporti} [Math. Nachr. 291, No. 2--3, 264--283 (2018; Zbl 1408.14122)]. The main tool used here is studying further quotients \((C \times C)/G' \) where \(G '\) is a group of automorphisms of \(C\times C\) containing \(G\), and relating the Albanese morphism of \(S\) with the Jacobian \(J(C)\).



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