Motivic Serre invariants and Weil restriction (Q2482071)

The authors study the behavior w.r.t.\ Weil restriction and field extension of some ramification theoretic invariants, in particular, the motivic Serre invariant that was introduced by \textit{F. Loeser} and \textit{J. Sebag} [Duke Math. J. 119, 315--344 (2003; Zbl 1078.14029)] as the motivic integration analog of the classical \(p\)-adic invariant from \textit{J.-P. Serre} [Topology 3, 409--412 (1965; Zbl 0141.37403)]. Amongst others, they prove that the motivic Serre invariant (of a formal scheme or rigid variety) is stable under Weil restriction w.r.t.\ a finite totally ramified extension. This justifies its interpretation as a measure for the size of the set of unramified points of the variety.