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The Newton tree: geometric interpretation and applications to the motivic zeta function and the log canonical threshold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2015

PIERRETTE CASSOU-NOGUÈS  and
WILLEM VEYS
PIERRETTE CASSOU-NOGUÈS
Affiliation:
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux I, 350, Cours de la Libération, 33405, Talence Cedex 05, FRANCE e-mail: pierrette.cassou-nogues@math.u-bordeaux1.fr
WILLEM VEYS
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Dept. Wiskunde, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium e-mail: wim.veys@wis.kuleuven.be
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Abstract

Let ${\mathcal I}$ be an arbitrary ideal in ${\mathbb C}$ [[x, y]]. We use the Newton algorithm to compute by induction the motivic zeta function of the ideal, yielding only few poles, associated to the faces of the successive Newton polygons. We associate a minimal Newton tree to ${\mathcal I}$ , related to using good coordinates in the Newton algorithm, and show that it has a conceptual geometric interpretation in terms of the log canonical model of ${\mathcal I}$ . We also compute the log canonical threshold from a Newton polygon and strengthen Corti's inequalities.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 159 , Issue 3 , November 2015 , pp. 481 - 515
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2015 

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