Surfaces isogenous to a product of curves, braid groups and mapping class groups
arXiv:1311.5671
Abstract
This article is a revised version of the talk I gave at the conference ``Beauville Surfaces and groups'' held in Newcastle in June 2012. It presents some group theoretical methods to give bounds on the number of connected components of the moduli space of surfaces of general type, focusing on some families of regular surfaces isogenous to a product of curves.
To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference "Beauville Surfaces and Groups", Newcastle University (UK), 7-9th June 2012, 15 pages