A note on a family of surfaces with $$p_g=q=2$$ and $$K^2=7$$
AbstractWe study a family of surfaces of general type with $$p_g=q=2$$ p g = q = 2 and $$K^2=7$$ K 2 = 7 , originally constructed by C. Rito in [35]. We provide an alternative construction of these surfaces, that allows us to describe their Albanese map and the corresponding locus $$\mathcal {M}$$ M in the moduli space of surfaces of general type. In particular we prove that $$\mathcal {M}$$ M is an open subset, and it has three connected components, all of which are 2-dimensional, irreducible and generically smooth