A Pair of Rigid Surfaces with pg= q = 2 and K2= 8 Whose Universal Cover is Not the Bidisk

Abstract

Abstract We construct two complex-conjugated rigid minimal surfaces with $p_g\!=q=2$ and $K^2\!=8$ whose universal cover is not biholomorphic to the bidisk $\mathbb{H} \times \mathbb{H}$. We show that these are the unique surfaces with these invariants and Albanese map of degree 2, apart from the family of product-quotient surfaces given in [33]. This completes the classification of surfaces with $p_g=q=2, K^2=8$, and Albanese map of degree 2.