  In this paper we define and study signed deficient topological measures and
signed topological measures (which generalize signed measures) on locally
compact spaces. We prove that a signed deficient topological measure is
$\tau$-smooth on open sets and $\tau$-smooth on compact sets. We show that the
family of signed measures that are differences of two Radon measures is
properly contained in the family of signed topological measures, which in turn
is properly contained in the family of signed deficient topological measures.
Extending known results for compact spaces, we prove that a signed topological
measure is the difference of its positive and negative variations if at least
one variation is finite; we also show that the total variation is the sum of
the positive and negative variations. If the space is locally compact,
connected, locally connected, and has the Alexandroff one-point
compactification of genus 0, a signed topological measure of finite norm can be
represented as a difference of two topological measures.
