Unfolding polynomial maps at infinity

DOI10.1007/S002080000117MaRDI QIDQ1586938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 4 February 2003

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910054

Monodromy; relations with differential equations and (D)-modules (complex-analytic aspects) (32S40) Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55)

Abstract: We give a topological model for a polynomial map from

C^{n}

to

C

in the neighborhood of a fiber with isolated singularities. This is motivated out of the ``unfolding of links described earlier by the first author and Lee Rudolph. The topological model gives a useful encoding of the local and global monodromy for the map. The new ingredients --- the topology of the singularities at infinity of an irregular fiber, as encoded by the Milnor fibers at infinity and the monodromy maps on these Milnor fibers --- are recoverable for n=2 in full from the link at infinity of the irregular fiber. They can thus be computed completely in terms of splice diagrams. We illustrate our results by computing the global monodromy of the Briancon polynomial.

Review text

Consider a polynomial map \(f:{\mathbb C}^n\longrightarrow {\mathbb C}\). We can view this as a family of affine hypersurfaces. The goal is to give a description of the topology of this family in terms of easily determined data. These data fall in three classes: 1) the Milnor fibres, 2) the local monodromy for the irregular fiber restricted to each Milnor fiber, 3) the embeddings of the Milnor fibres in a fixed regular Milnor fibre. The main result of the paper is the determination of the first two data in case \(n=2\). Sometimes this suffices for a full description of the topology.

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