Milnor fibers over singular toric varieties and nearby cycle sheaves

Abstract

We apply sheaf-theoretical methods to monodromy zeta functions of Milnor fibrations. Classical formulas due to Kushnirenko, Varchenko and Oka, etc. on polynomials over the complex affine space will be generalized to polynomial functions over any toric variety. Moreover our results enable us to calculate the monodromy zeta functions of any constructible sheaf.