Tropical Hirzebruch signature conjecture for tropical surfaces

Let XX be a compact tropical surface. Let KX2K_X^2 denote the square of its canonical class and c2(X)c_2(X) its top tropical Chern class. Write H1,1(X)H_{1,1}(X) for the tropical (1,1)(1,1)-homology group, and let Sign1,1(X)\mathbf{Sign}_{1,1}(X) be the signature of its intersection form.

Tropical Hirzebruch signature conjecture.

3Sign1,1(X)=KX22c2(X).3\mathbf{Sign}_{1,1}(X)=K_X^2-2c_2(X).

This is the proposed tropical counterpart of Hirzebruch's signature formula. The preceding corollary establishes additivity of the right-hand side under tropical sums, but the source does not state that the conjecture has been proved.

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Kristin Shaw, “Tropical surfaces”, arXiv:1506.07407 (2015).

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