Vanishing cycles and Sebastiani-Thom in the setting of motivic integration II

Vanishing cycles and Sebastiani-Thom in the setting of motivic integration II

Thu, 07/05/2009
15:45 		Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht) Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry Seminar Add to calendar SR1
Vanishing cycles and Sebastiani-Thom in the setting of motivic integration II
This is an overview, mostly of work of others (Denef, Loeser, Merle, Heinloth-Bittner,..). In the first part of the talk we give a brief introduction to motivic integration emphasizing its application to vanishing cycles. In the second part we discuss a join construction and formulate the relevant Sebastiani-Thom theorem.