Equality of the images of the $L_1$ and $L_{d-1}$ fans

Prove that the fans associated with $L_1$ and $L_{d-1}$ have the same image in the tropical moduli space $M^{tr}_2$.

Background

The locus of genus-2 curves with dd-split Jacobian decomposes into pieces LkL_k indexed by units modulo dd. The corresponding fans organize the parameter space according to the reduction data of the associated quadratic forms and map into M2trM^{tr}_2.

The case d=3d=3 is verified in the paper, and sporadic higher-degree examples point in the same direction, but the claimed equality of images for the two complementary indices $1$ and d1d-1 is explicitly presented as a conjecture rather than established in general.

References

The fans associated to $L_1$ and $L_{d-1}$ have the same image in $M{tr}_2$.

Tropical split Jacobians of curves of genus 2 II  (2502.05624 - Cobigo, 8 Feb 2025) in Conjecture, Section 'Further Questions' at the end of the Moduli space perspective section