Motivic integration and Milnor fiber

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DOI10.4171/JEMS/1123zbMATH Open1498.14032arXiv1810.03561OpenAlexW3185445421MaRDI QIDQ2124239FDOQ2124239

Goulwen Fichou, Yimu Yin

Publication date: 19 April 2022

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We put forward in this paper a uniform narrative that weaves together several variants of Hrushovski-Kazhdan style integral, and describe how it can facilitate the understanding of the Denef-Loeser motivic Milnor fiber and closely related objects. Our study focuses on the so-called "nonarchimedean Milnor fiber" that was introduced by Hrushovski and Loeser, and our thesis is that it is a richer embodiment of the underlying philosophy of the Milnor construction. The said narrative is first developed in the more natural complex environment, and is then extended to the real one via descent. In the process of doing so, we are able to provide more illuminating new proofs, free of resolution of singularities, of a few pivotal results in the literature, both complex and real. To begin with, the real motivic zeta function is shown to be rational, which yields the real motivic Milnor fiber; this is an analogue of the Hrushovski-Loeser construction. We also establish, in a much more intuitive manner, a new Thom-Sebastiani formula, which can be specialized to the one given by Guibert, Loeser, and Merle. Finally, applying T-convex integration after descent, matching the Euler Characteristics of the topological Milnor fiber and the motivic Milnor fiber becomes a matter of simple computation, which is not only free of resolution of singularities as in the Hrushovski-Loeser proof, but is also free of other sophisticated algebro-geometric machineries.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03561




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