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Let $X$ be a smooth projective surface, $\mathcal{E}$ a stable torsion free Higgs sheaf of degree 0. Consider the following short exact sequence: $$0\rightarrow \mathcal{E}\rightarrow \mathcal{E}^{**}\rightarrow \mathcal{S}\rightarrow 0$$ where $\mathcal{E}^{**}$ is the double dual of $\mathcal{E}$. Then $\mathcal{S}$ is a skyscraper sheaf.

Q1: Why is the second Chern class $c_2(\mathcal{S})\leq 0$?

Q2: We know that since $E$ stable, so $E$ admits a Hermitian-Yang-Mills metric, so is $E^{**}$. Is it easy to explain that $c_2(E^{**})\geq0$, given the existence of Hermitian-Yang-Mills metric?

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Q1: in fact, for a skyscraper sheaf $\mathcal{S}$ on a surface one has $c_2(\mathcal{S})=- \mathrm{length}(\mathcal{S})$: this follows for instance from example 15.3.1 in Fulton's Intersection theory.

Q2: It depends what you call "easy"... It is a nontrivial computation due originally to Lübke, and extended to the case of Higgs bundles by Simpson (Proposition 3.4 in Constructing variations of Hodge structure using Yang-Mills theory and applications to uniformization. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1988), 867–918).

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