摘要

Catanese%26apos;s rigidity results for surfaces isogenous to a product of curves indicate that Beauville surfaces should provide a fertile source of examples of Galois conjugate varieties that are not homeomorphic, a phenomenon discovered by J.P. Serre in the sixties. %26lt;br%26gt;In this paper, we construct Beauville surfaces S = (C-1 x C-2)/G with group G = PSL(2, p) for p %26gt;= 7, and curves C-1, C-2 such that the orbit of S under the action of the absolute Galois group Gal ((Q) over bar /Q) contains non-homeomorphic conjugate surfaces. When p = 7 the orbit consists exactly of two surfaces that have non-isomorphic fundamental groups, and the curves C-1, C-2 have genera 8 and 49, which is shown to be the minimum for which there is a pair of non-homeomorphic Galois conjugate Beauville surfaces. As p grows the orbits contain an arbitrarily large number of non-homeomorphic surfaces. %26lt;br%26gt;Along the way we prove a metric rigidity theorem for Beauville surfaces which provides an elementary proof of the part of Catanese%26apos;s theory needed to prove our results.

  • 出版日期2012-4-1