The Brasselet–Schürmann–Yokura Conjecture on <i>L</i>-Classes of Projective Rational Homology Manifolds

Abstract In 2010, Brasselet, Schürmann, and Yokura conjectured an equality of characteristic classes of singular varieties between the Goresky–MacPherson $L$-class $L_{*}(X)$ and the Hirzebruch homology class $T_{1,*}(X)$ for a compact complex algebraic variety $X$ that is a rational homology manifold. In this note we give a proof of this conjecture for projective varieties based on cubical hyperresolutions, the Decomposition Theorem, and Hodge theory. The crucial step of the proof is a new characterization of rational homology manifolds in terms of cubical hyperresolutions that we find of independent interest.