Canonical surfaces of higher degree

Abstract

We consider a family of surfaces of general type $S$ with $K_S$ ample, having $K^2_S = 24, p_g (S) = 6, q(S)=0$. We prove that for these surfaces the canonical system is base point free and yields an embedding $\Phi_1 : S \rightarrow \mathbb{P}^5$. This result answers a question posed by G. and M. Kapustka. We discuss some related open problems, concerning also the case $p_g(S) = 5$, where one requires the canonical map to be birational onto its image.