Thom condition and Monodromy

Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55) Topological aspects of complex singularities: Lefschetz theorems, topological classification, invariants (32S50) Monodromy; relations with differential equations and (D)-modules (complex-analytic aspects) (32S40)

Abstract: We show that given any germ of complex analytic function

f c o l o n (X, x) o (m a t h b b C, 0)

on a complex analytic space

X

, there exists a geometric local monodromy without fixed points, provided that

f i n m a t h f r a k m_{X, x}^{2}

, where

m a t h f r a k m_{X, x}

is the maximal ideal of

m a t h c a l O_{X, x}

. This result generalizes a well-known theorem of the second named author when

X

is smooth at

x

and it also implies the A'Campo theorem that the Lefschetz number of the monodromy is equal to zero. Moreover, we give an application to the case that

X

has maximal rectified homotopical depth at

x

and show that a family of such functions with isolated critical points and constant total Milnor number has no coalescing of singularities.

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