(1) Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305-8571, Japan
Abstract:
We show that the Milnor monodromy and the Milnor numbers naturally appear in the characteristic cycles of irreducible perverse sheaves having the singularities of a complex hypersurface. We find also a new numerical constraint on the Milnor monodromy for general hypersurface singularities.Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 14B05, 32C38, 32S40, 35A27Dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Prof P. Schapira who taught us the theory of D-modules