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# An arithmetic ball quotient surface whose Albanese variety is not of CM type

• An example is given of a compact quotient of the unit ball in $\mathbb{C}^2$ by an arithmetic group acting freely such that the Albanese variety is not of CM type. Such examples do not exist for congruence subgroups.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11F75 (14J29).

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