RT Journal Article T1 On the Bicanonical Morphism of quadruple Galois canonical covers A1 Gallego Rodrigo, Francisco Javier A1 Purnaprajna, Bangere P. AB I In this article we study the bicanonical map ϕ2 of quadruple Galois canonical covers X of surfaces of minimal degree. We show that ϕ2 has diverse behavior and exhibits most of the complexities that are possible for a bicanonical map of surfaces of general type, depending on the type of X.There are cases in which ϕ2 is an embedding, and if it so happens, ϕ2 embeds X as a projectively normal variety, and there are cases in which ϕ2 is not an embedding. If the latter, ϕ2 is finite of degree 1, 2 or 4. We also study thecanonical ring of X, proving that it is generated in degree less than or equal to 3 and finding the number of generators in each degree. For generators of degree 2 we find a nice general formula which holds for canonical covers of arbitrary degrees. We show that this formula depends only on the geometric and the arithmetic genus of X. PB American Mathematical Society SN 1088-6850 YR 2011 FD 2011-03-07 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41932 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41932 LA eng NO First published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in Volume 363, Number 8, August 2011, published by the American Mathematical Society NO Spanish Government NO Complutense NO General Research Fund of Kansas DS Docta Complutense RD 27 abr 2025