Bloch's conjecture for fake projective planes with an automorphism of order 3

Abstract

In this short note, we prove that an involution on certain examples of surfaces of general type with $p_g=0=q,K^2=3$, acts as identity on the Chow group of zero cycles of the relevant surface. In particular, we consider examples of such surfaces when the quotient is birational to an Enriques surface or to a surface of Kodaira dimension one and show that the Bloch conjecture holds for such surfaces. As a consequence, we show that the Bloch conjecture holds for certain examples of fake projective planes.