The Serre invariant and the analytic Milnor fiber. (Q2484554)

The authors refine the definition of motivic Serre invariants using motivic integration. They study the behaviour of these invariants under ramification and establish a trace formula given the topological Euler characteristic in terms of the trace of some morphism. As a consequence they get the trace formulas of \textit{J. Denef} and \textit{F. Loeser} [Topology 41, No. 5, 1031--1040 (2002; Zbl 1054.14003)] and \textit{N. A'Campo} [Comment. Math. Helv. 50, 233--248 (1975; Zbl 0333.14008)]. The results announced in this note will be part of a more complete paper in preparation.