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The Motivic Picard--Lefschetz Formula

Algebraic Geometry 2025-10-15 v1

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.

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@article{arxiv.2510.12762,
  title  = {The Motivic Picard--Lefschetz Formula},
  author = {Ran Azouri and Emil Jacobsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.12762},
  year   = {2025}
}

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v1: Preliminary version. 30pp. Comments welcome!