Home Page of Wim Veys

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Publications with available DVI- PS- and/or PDF-file

Previous publications

Work Information

Professor at the University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven),

Department of Mathematics, Section of Algebra

Fields of Research

Algebraic Geometry, Singularity Theory, applications in Number Theory

Specific Research Topics

Exceptional divisor of an embedded resolution, Zeta Functions (Igusa, topological, motivic), Monodromy, Configurations of curves on surfaces, Surface singularities,  Stringy invariants, Principal value integrals

Ph.D. Students

Dr. Bart Rodrigues : Geometric determination of the poles of motivic and topological zeta functions, May 2002

Dr. Dirk Segers : Smallest poles of zeta functions and solutions of polynomial congruences, April 2004

Dr. Jan Schepers : Stringy invariants of singular algebraic varieties,  May 2006

Dr. Ann Lemahieu (other adviser : Antonio Campillo, Univ. Valladolid) : Poincaré series and zeta functions,  March 2007

Dr. Filip Cools  (other adviser :  Marc Coppens) :  Grassmann secant varieties and plane curves with total inflection points, May 2007

Dr. Lise Van Proeyen : Local zeta functions for ideals and the monodromy conjecture, July 2008

Tim  Wouters (other adviser : Philippe Gille, Parijs)  : Cohomological approach of obstructions for the existence of rational points

Bart Bories : On p-adic and other zeta functions

Leen Van Langenhoven

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Contact Information

Address :

University of Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Celestijnenlaan 200 B,

B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium.

Electronic mail address : wim.veys@wis.kuleuven.be

Web address : http://www.wis.kuleuven.be/algebra/veys.htm

Office phone : (+32)16-327092

Office fax : (+32)16-327998

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Publications with available PDF-, DVI- and/or PS-file (starting from 1992)

A. Némethi and W. Veys,  Monodromy eigenvalues are induced by poles of zeta functions - the irreducible curve case, Bull. London Math. Soc.  (to appear), 11p. pdf

A. Melle, T. Torrelli and W. Veys, Monodromy Jordan blocks, b-functions and poles of zeta functions for germs of plane curves, preprint  (2008), 20p. pdf

A. Melle, T. Torrelli and W. Veys, On 'maximal' poles of zeta functions, roots of b-functions and monodromy Jordan blocks, J. Topology (to appear), 8p. pdf
L. Van Proeyen and W. Veys, The monodromy conjecture for  zeta functions associated to ideals in dimension two, Ann. Inst. Fourier (to appear), 16p.  pdf

A. Lemahieu and W. Veys, Zeta functions and monodromy for surfaces that are general for a toric idealistic clusterIntern. Math. Res. Notices  ID rnn122 (2009), 52p. pdf

E. Daems, A. Kuijlaars and W. Veys, Asymptotics of non-intersecting Brownian motions and a 4x4 Riemann-Hilbert problem, J. Approximation Theory 153  (2008),  225-256. pdf

A. Lemahieu and W. Veys, On  monodromy for a class of surfaces, C. R. Acac. Sci. Paris, Ser. I  345 (2007), 633-638. pdf

D. Segers, L. Van Proeyen and W. Veys, The motivic zeta function and its smallest poles, J. Algebra 317 (2007), 851-866. dvi,  pdf

J. Schepers and W. Veys, Stringy E-functions of hypersurfaces and of Brieskorn singularities, Adv. Geom. 9 (2009), 199-217.  pdf
(new and extended version of our previous preprint  Stringy E-functions of hypersurfaces)

L. Van Proeyen and W. Veys, Poles of the topological zeta function associated to an ideal in dimension two, Math. Z. 260 (2008), 615-627. dvi,  pdf

W. Veys, Monodromy eigenvalues and zeta functions with differential forms, Adv. Math. 213 (2007), 341-357. dvi, ps, pdf

W. Veys and W. Zuniga-Galindo, Zeta functions for analytic mappings, log-principalization of ideals, and Newton polyhedra, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), 2205-2227. pdf 

J. Schepers and W. Veys, Stringy Hodge numbers for a class of isolated singularities and for  threefolds, Intern. Math. Res. Notices, ID rnm016 (2007), 14p.  pdf

W. Veys, On motivic principal value integrals, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 143 (2007), 543-555. ps, pdf

W. Veys, Vanishing of principal value integrals on surfaces, J. Reine Angew. Math. 598 (2006), 139-158. dvi, ps, pdf

A.  Lemahieu, D. Segers and W. Veys, On the poles of topological zeta functions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 3429-3436. dvi, ps, pdf

W. Veys, Arc spaces, motivic integration and stringy invariants, Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics 43 , Proceedings of "Singularity Theory and its applications, Sapporo (Japan), 16-25 september 2003" (2006), 529-572. dvi, ps, pdf

D. Segers and W. Veys, On the smallest poles of topological zeta functions, Compositio Math. 140 (2004), 130-144. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Stringy invariants of normal surfaces, J. Alg. Geom. 13 (2004), 115-141. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Stringy zeta functions for Q-Gorenstein varieties, Duke Math. J. 120 (2003), 469-514. dvi, ps

B. Rodrigues and W. Veys, Poles of zeta functions on normal surfaces, Proc. London Math. Soc. 87 (2003), 164-196. dvi, ps

B. Rodrigues and W. Veys, Holomorphy of Igusa's and topological zeta functions for homogeneous polynomials, Pacific J. Math. 201 (2001), 429-441. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Zeta functions and 'Kontsevich invariants' on singular varieties, Canad. J. Math. 53 (2001), 834-865. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Embedded resolution of singularities and Igusa's local zeta function, Academiae Analecta, 2001 (survey paper, 56p). dvi

A. Laeremans and W. Veys, On the poles of maximal order of the topological zeta function, Bull. London Math. Soc. 31 (1999), 441-449. dvi, ps

W. Veys, The topological zeta function associated to a function on a normal surface germ, Topology 38 (1999), 439-456. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Structure of rational open surfaces with non-positive Euler characteristic, Math. Annalen 312 (1998), 527-548. dvi, ps

W. Veys, More congruences for numerical data of an embedded resolution, Compositio Math. 112 (1998), 313-331. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Zeta functions for curves and log canonical models, Proc. London Math. Soc. 74 (1997), 360-378. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Determination of the poles of the topological zeta function for curves, Manuscripta Math. 87 (1995), 435-448. dvi, ps

J. Denef and W. Veys, On the holomorphy conjecture for Igusa's local zeta function, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 123 (1995), 2981-2988. dvi, ps

W. Veys, On Euler characteristics associated to exceptional divisors, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 (1995), 3287-3300. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Poles of Igusa's local zeta function and monodromy, Bull. Soc. Math. France 121 (1993), 545-598. ps

W. Veys, Holomorphy of local zeta functions for curves, Math. Annalen 295 (1993), 635-641. dvi, ps

W. Veys, Reduction modulo p^n of p-adic subanalytic sets, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 112 (1992), 483--486. dvi, ps

Previous Publications

W. Veys, On the poles of local zeta functions for curves, Proc. first Belgian-Spanish week on Algebra and Geometry, Antwerpen 1988, 173-181.

W. Veys, On the poles of Igusa's local zeta function for curves, J. London Math. Soc. 41 (1990), 27-32.

W. Veys, Relations between numerical data of an embedded resolution, Amer. J. Math. 113 (1991), 573-592.

W. Veys, Congruences for numerical data of an embedded resolution, Compositio Math. 80 (1991), 151-169.

W. Veys, Relations between numerical data of an embedded resolution, Astérisque 198/200 (1991), 397-403.

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Other homepages of our research group :

Jan Denef

Raf Cluckers

Dirk Segers

previous members : Philippe Jacobs, Kathleen Hoornaert

Last Revised: November 2009