Batyrev's stringy Chern-number conjecture

Let X\mathcal{X} be a Gorenstein proper Deligne–Mumford stack with projective coarse moduli space XX, such that XX\mathcal{X}\to X is proper and birational and KXK_\mathcal{X} is the pullback of KXK_X. Let cst1,n1(X)c_{st}^{1,n-1}(X) be the stringy Chern number and let IIXII\mathcal{X} be the double inertia orbifold. Stringy Chern-number conjecture. One has

cst1,n1(X)=IIXc1(TX)ctop1(TIIX).c_{st}^{1,n-1}(X)=\int_{II\mathcal{X}}c_1(T_\mathcal{X})c_{\operatorname{top}-1}(T_{II\mathcal{X}}).

This identity would identify the stringy Chern number with its orbifold characteristic-class counterpart and would imply the corresponding comparison needed for the orbifold Libgober–Wood formula. The paper notes that the equality is known in the Calabi–Yau case because both sides vanish there, but leaves the general case open.

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Yunfeng Jiang and Hsian-Hua Tseng, “On Virasoro Constraints for Orbifold Gromov-Witten Theory”, arXiv:0704.2009 (2007).

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