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The Motivic Picard--Lefschetz Formula

arXiv:2510.12762

Abstract

We prove a motivic enhancement of the classical Picard--Lefschetz formula. Our proof is completely motivic, and yields a description of the motivic nearby cycles at a quasi-homogeneous singularity, as well as its monodromy, in terms of an embedding of projective hypersurfaces.

v1: Preliminary version. 30pp. Comments welcome!

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