Gauss-Manin connections for boundary singularities and isochore deformations (Q2515988)

The author considers isolated singularities of functions on manifolds with boundary, i.e. with a fixed hyperplane section, and Gauss-Manin connections on the relative cohomology. He recalls the notions of Milnor number, Milnor bundle and Brieskorn module and then he proves analogs of some classical results due to E. Brieskorn, M. Sebastiani and B. Malgrange concerning the properties of the Gauss-Manin connection as well as its relations to the Picard-Lefschetz monodromy and the asymptotics of integrals of holomorphic forms along vanishing cycles. He gives an application to isochore deformation theory, i.e. deformation theory of boundary singularities with respect to a volume form, including a relative analog of J. Vey's isochore Morse lemma, J.-P. Françoise's generalisation of local normal forms of volume forms with respect to boundary singularity-preserving diffeomorphisms, as well as of M. D. Garay's theorem on the isochore version of Mather's versal unfolding theorem.