We prove a large sieve statement for the average distribution of Frobenius conjugacy classes in arithmetic monodromy groups over finite fields. As a first application we prove a stronger version of a result of Chavdarov on the “generic” irreducibility of the numerator of the zeta functions in a family of curves with large monodromy.

A complete description of the iterated monodromy groups of postcritically finite backward polynomial iterations is given in terms of their actions on rooted trees and automata generating them. We describe an iterative algorithm for finding kneading automata associated with post-critically finite topological polynomials and discuss some open questions about iterated monodromy groups of polynomials.

We prove that for any germ of complex analytic set in Cn there exists a hypersurface singularity whose Milnor fibration has trivial geometric monodromy and fibre homotopic to the complement of the germ of complex analytic set. As an application we show an example of a quasi-homogeneous hypersurface singularity, with trivial geometric monodromy and simply connected and non-formal Milnor fibre.

By using sheaf-theoretical methods such as constructible sheaves, we generalize the formula of Libgober-Sperber [17] concerning the zeta functions of monodromy at infinity of polynomial maps into various directions. In particular, some formulas for the zeta functions of global monodromy along the fibers of bifurcation points of polynomial maps will be obtained.

Introduction Lecture 1. Algebraic properties of correlators in 2D topological field theory. Moduli of a 2D TFT and WDVV equations of associativity. Lecture 2. Equations of associativity and Frobenius manifolds. Deformed flat connection and its monodromy at the origin. Lecture 3. Semisimplicity and canonical coordinates. Lecture 4. Classification of semisimple Frobenius manifolds. Lecture 5. Mon...

A spherical n-gon is a bordered surface homeomorphic to a closed disk, with n distinguished boundary points called corners, equipped with a Riemannian metric of constant curvature 1, except at the corners, and such that the boundary arcs between the corners are geodesic. We discuss the problem of classification of these polygons and enumerate them in the case that two angles at the corners are ...

The paper completes the study of symmetries of parabolic function singularities with relation to complex crystallographic groups that was started in [14, 12]. We classify smoothable automorphisms of P8 singularities which split the kernel of the intersection form on the second homology. For such automorphisms, the monodromy groups acting on the duals to the eigenspaces with degenerate intersect...

The monodromy method—featuring braid group action—first appeared as a moduli space approach for finding solutions of arithmetic problems that produce reducible variables separated curves. Examples in this paper illustrate its most interesting aspect: investigating the moduli space of exceptions to a specific diophantine outcome. Explicit versions of Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem and Davenpor...

The monodromy method|featuring braid group action||rst appeared as a moduli space approach for nding solutions of arithmetic problems that produce reducible variables separated curves. Examples in this paper illustrate its most interesting aspect: investigating the moduli space of exceptions to a speciic diophantine outcome. Explicit versions of Hilbert's irreducibility theorem and Davenport's ...