Motivic, logarithmic, and topological Milnor fibrations

Abstract

We compare the topological Milnor fibration and the motivic Milnor fibre of a regular complex function with only normal crossing singularities by introducing their common extension: the complete Milnor fibration. We give two equivalent constructions: the first one extending the classical Kato–Nakayama log-space, and the second one, more geometric, based on the real oriented multigraph construction, a version of the real oriented deformation to the normal cone. As an application, we recover A'Campo's model of the topological Milnor fibration, by quotienting the motivic Milnor fibration with suitable powers of $R_{>0}$, and show that it determines the classical motivic Milnor fibre.

We also give precise formulae expressing how the introduced objects change under blowings-up. As an application, we show that the motivic Milnor fibre is well-defined as an element of a suitable Grothendieck ring without requiring that the Lefschetz motive be invertible.