Characteristic cycles of perverse sheaves and Milnor fibers (Q1771985)

The authors consider complex hypersurfaces with isolated singular points and irreducible perverse sheaves having the singularities of such hypersurfaces. They show that the Milnor monodromy and the Milnor numbers appear naturally in the characteristic cycles of such sheaves. They also find a new numerical constraint concerning the number and sizes of Jordan blocks with a given eigenvalue in the Milnor monodromy for general hypersurface singularities.