Notes on hyperelliptic fibrations of genus 3, II

Abstract

This is the part II of the series under the same title. In part I, using the approach developed by Catanese--Pignatelli arXiv:math/0503294, we gave a structure theorem for hyperelliptic genus 3 fibrations all of whose fibers are 2-connected (arXiv:1209.6278 [math.AG]). In this part II, we shall give a structure theorem for smooth deformation families of these to non-hyperelliptic genus 3 fibrations. As an application, we shall give a set of sufficient conditions for our genus 3 hyperelliptic fibration above to allow deformation to non-hyperelliptic fibrations, and use this to study certain minimal regular surfaces with first Chern number 8 and geometric genus 4: we shall find in the moduli space two strata M_0^{sharp} and M_0^{flat}$ (each of dimensions 32 and 30, respectively), and show that Bauer--Pingatelli's stratum M_0 (arXiv:math/0603094) and its 26-dimensional substratum are at the boundary of these new strata M_0^{sharp} and M_0^{flat}, respectively.