Abstract:
Bauer and Catanese found four families
of surfaces of general type with $p_g=q=0$,
each of which is the quotient of a product of curves
by the action of a finite Abelian group.
We compute the integral cohomology groups
of these surfaces.
Keywords:surfaces of general type, surfaces isogenous to a product, fake quadrics,
branched coverings, fundamental group, homology groups.