Resolutions of surfaces with big cotangent bundle and $A_2$ singularities

Abstract

We give a new criterion for when a resolution of a surface of general type with canonical singularities has big cotangent bundle and a new lower bound for the values of $d$ for which there is a surface with big cotangent bundle that is deformation equivalent to a smooth hypersurface in $\mathbb{P}^3$ of degree $d$.