Meromorphic functions, bifurcation sets and fibred links

We show that the number of bifurcation points at infinity of a polynomial function f : C2 -> C is at most the number of branches at infinity of a generic fiber of f and that this upper bound can be diminished by one in certain cases.

Let $P$ and $Q$ be two polynomials in two variables with coefficients in an algebraic closed field of characteristic zero. We consider the rational function $f=P/Q$. For an indeterminacy point $\text{x}$ of $f$ and a value $c$, we compute the motivic Milnor fiber $S_{f,\text{x}, c}$ in terms of some motives associated to the faces of the Newton polygons appearing in the Newton algorithms of $P-cQ$ and $Q$ at $\text{x}$, without any condition of non-degeneracy or convenience. ...

Let $S\subset \mathbb{C}^n$ be a non-singular algebraic set and $f \colon \mathbb{C}^n \to \mathbb{C}$ be a polynomial function. It is well-known that the restriction $f|_S \colon S \to \mathbb{C}$ of $f$ on $S$ is a locally trivial fibration outside a finite set $B(f|_S) \subset \mathbb{C}.$ In this paper, we give an explicit description of a finite set $T_\infty(f|_S) \subset \mathbb{C}$ such that $B(f|_S) \subset K_0(f|_S) \cup T_\infty(f|_S),$ where $K_0(f|_S)$ denotes th...

We discuss and prove a number of cohomological results for Milnor fibers, real links, and complex links of local complete intersections with singularities of arbitrary dimension.

In this paper we use motivic integration and non-archimedean analytic geometry to study the singularities at infinity of the fibers of a polynomial map $f\colon \mathbb A^d_\mathbb C \to \mathbb A^1_\mathbb C$. We show that the motive $S_{f,a}^{\infty}$ of the motivic nearby cycles at infinity of $f$ for a value $a$ is a motivic generalization of the classical invariant $\lambda_f(a)$, an integer that measures a lack of equisingularity at infinity in the fiber $f^{-1}(a)$. We...

We show that the variation of the topology at infinity of a two-variable polynomial function is localisable at a finite number of "atypical points" at infinity. We construct an effective algorithm with low complexity in order to detect sharply the bifurcation values of the polynomial function.

A notion of Milnor fibration for meromorphic functions and the corresponding concepts of monodromy and monodromy zeta function have been introduced in [GZLM1]. In this article we define the topological zeta function for meromorphic germs and we study its poles in the plane case. We show that the poles do not behave as in the holomorphic case but still do satisfy a generalization of the monodromy conjecture.

The problem of detecting the bifurcation set of polynomial mappings $\mathbb{ C}^m \to \mathbb{ C}^k$, $m\ge 2$, $m\ge k\ge 1$, has been solved in the case $m=2$, $k=1$ only. Its solution, which goes back to the 1970s, involves the non-constancy of the Euler characteristic of fibres. We provide a complete answer to the general case $m= k+1 \ge 3$ in terms of the Betti numbers of fibres and of a vanishing phenomenon discovered in the late 1990s in the real setting.

In analogy with the holomorphic case, we compare the topology of Milnor fibrations associated to a meromorphic germ f/g : the local Milnor fibrations given on Milnor tubes over punctured discs around the critical values of f/g, and the Milnor fibration on a sphere.

We consider a mixed function of type $H(z,\bar z)=f(z)\bar g(z)$ where $f,g$ are non-degenerate but they are not assumed to be convenient. We assume that $f=0$ and $g=0$ and $f=g=0$ are non-degenerate and locally tame. We will show that $H$ has a tubular Milnor fibration and a spherical Milnor fibration. We show also two fibrations are equivalent.