Purely (non-) strongly real Beauville $p$-groups

Abstract

For every prime $p\ge 5$, we give examples of Beauville $p$-groups whose Beauville structures are never strongly real. This shows that there are purely non-strongly real nilpotent Beauville groups. On the other hand, we determine infinitely many Beauville $2$-groups which are purely strongly real. This answers two questions formulated by Fairbairn in [8].