Numerical Godeaux surfaces with an involution

Details Numerical Godeaux surfaces with an involution Numerical Godeaux surfaces with an involution

2005-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/math/0501551v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

25 pages, 1 figure (with Xy-pic)

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Minimal algebraic surfaces of general type with the smallest possible invariants have geometric genus zero and K^2=1 and are usually called "numerical Godeaux surfaces". Although they have been studied by several authors, their complete classification is not known. In this paper we classify numerical Godeaux surfaces with an involution, i.e. with an automorphism of order 2. We prove that they are birationally equivalent either to double covers of Enriques surfaces, or to double planes of two different types: the branch curve either has degree 10 and suitable singularities, originally suggested by Campedelli, or is the union of two lines and a curve of degree 12 with certain singularities. The latter type of double planes are degenerations of examples described by Du Val and their existence was previously unknown; we show some examples of this new type, computing also their torsion group.

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