Tropical refined curve counting via motivic integration (Q1785080)

This paper aims to analyze the relationship between two different approaches to curve counting in toric surfaces. These two approaches are refined version of the two naive approaches using Euler characteristics of relative compactified Jacobians and Hilbert schemes and tropical geometry techniques, respectively. The refining consists in replacing the Euler characteristics with \(\chi_{-Y}\)-genera and combinatorially defined tropical multiplicities with polynomials, or Laurent polynomials, in a variable \(y\). Both refinements specialize to the classical cases if evaluated in \(y=1\). The aim of the authors is to give a geometric interpretation for the Block-Göttsche refined tropical multiplicities which, conjecturally, can be used to express \textit{L. Göttsche} and \textit{V. Shende}'s refined curve counting invariants from [Geom. Topol. 18, No. 4, 2245--2307 (2014; Zbl 1310.14012)] as a sum over tropical curves. The authors propose a conjectural geometric interpretation, via two conjectures, one stronger than the other, and, as evidence, give a proof of the genus 1 case. Moreover, these two conjectures provide a strategy to prove the correspondence conjecture between tropical and geometric refined curve counts proposed in [\textit{F. Block} and \textit{L. Göttsche}, Compos. Math. 152, No. 1, 115--151 (2016; Zbl 1348.14125)].