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Simply transitive quaternionic lattices of rank 2 over $\mathbb{F}$q(t) and a non-classical fake quadric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

JAKOB STIX  and
ALINA VDOVINA
JAKOB STIX
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Goethe-Universität, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. e-mail: stix@math.uni-frankfurt.de
ALINA VDOVINA
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU. e-mail: Alina.Vdovina@newcastle.ac.uk
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Abstract

By means of a quaternion algebra over $\mathbb{F}$q(t), we construct an infinite series of torsion free, simply transitive, irreducible lattices in PGL2($\mathbb{F}$q((t))) × PGL2($\mathbb{F}$q((t))). The lattices depend on an odd prime power q = pr and a parameter τ ∈ $\mathbb{F}$q×, τ ≠ 1, and are the fundamental group of a square complex with just one vertex and universal covering Tq+1 × Tq+1, a product of trees with constant valency q + 1.

Our lattices give rise via non-archimedian uniformization to smooth projective surfaces of general type over $\mathbb{F}$q((t)) with ample canonical class, Chern numbers c12 = 2 c2, trivial Albanese variety and non-reduced Picard scheme. For q = 3, the Zariski–Euler characteristic attains its minimal value χ = 1: the surface is a non-classical fake quadric.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 163 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 453 - 498
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2017 

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