Psi-floor diagrams and a Caporaso-Harris type recursion (Q1760385)

Tropical geometry is a degeneration of algebraic geometry, and it is remarkable that enumerative numbers survive this degeneration (a first instance of this is Mikhalkin's Correspondence Theorem in 2005 [\textit{G. Mikhalkin}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, 313--377 (2005; Zbl 1092.14068)], but today there are more correspondence theorems, due to other authors). For instance, this data is enough to recover the classical Caporaso-Harris formula (proved by \textit{A. Gathmann} and \textit{H. Markwig} [Math. Ann. 338, No. 4, 845--868 (2007; Zbl 1128.14040)]). The degeneration is taken even further by passing from tropical curves to floor diagrams (introduced by \textit{E. Brugallé} and \textit{G. Mikhalkin} [C. R., Math., Acad. Sci. Paris 345, No. 6, 329--334 (2007; Zbl 1124.14047)]). Floor diagrams are combinatorial objects with help count how many tropical curves satisfy some given point conditions. In this paper the authors introduce Psi-floor diagrams, which help count tropical curves satisfying point conditions and conditions given by Psi-classes. Then they define relative Psi-floor diagrams and prove a Caporaso-Harris type formula. This formula coincides with the classical Caporaso-Harris formula for relative plane descendant Gromov-Witten invariants.