Mori dream spaces and Q-homology quadrics

Abstract

We show that Shavel type surfaces are fake quadrics of even type which are not Mori dream surfaces, yet there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that the reduction modulo $p$ is a Mori dream surface. We investigate fake quadrics, first concerning the property of being Mori dream surfaces, then we try to determine which surfaces isogenous to a product are fake quadrics of even type.

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