Motivic Milnor fiber comparison with the topological Milnor fiber

Let ff be a complex analytic function in dd variables vanishing at the origin OO. Let Ff,OF_{f,O} be its topological Milnor fiber, let Sf,O\mathscr S_{f,O} be the motivic Milnor fiber of a Taylor expansion of ff at OO, and let χc\chi_c and χh\chi_h denote respectively the compactly supported Euler characteristic and the Hodge characteristic with monodromy. Motivic Milnor fiber comparison conjecture. The following equalities hold:

χc(Sf,O)=χc(Ff,O).\chi_c(\mathscr S_{f,O})=\chi_c(F_{f,O}). χh(Sf,O)=χh(Ff,O)in K0(HSmon).\chi_h(\mathscr S_{f,O})=\chi_h(F_{f,O})\quad\text{in }K_0(\operatorname{HS}^{\operatorname{mon}}).

These equalities assert that the motivic Milnor fiber recovers both the ordinary compactly supported Euler characteristic and the Hodge-theoretic invariant of the topological Milnor fiber, including its finite-order monodromy.

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Quy Thuong Lê and Hong Duc Nguyen, “Equivariant motivic integration on special formal schemes”, arXiv:2206.01005 (2026).

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