Abstract
In this note, we construct non-isotrivial families of curves of genus $$g\ge 2$$ , where the rank of the unitary summand contained in the Hodge bundle can be as large as $$(2g+1)/3$$ , and hence disprove Xiao’s conjecture for the unitary rank.
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