Zeta Functions for Analytic Mappings, Log-principalization of Ideals, and Newton Polyhedra

Willem Veys, W. A. Zuniga-Galindo

Published 2006-01-13, updated 2006-09-08Version 2

In this paper we provide a geometric description of the possible poles of the Igusa local zeta function associated to an analytic mapping and a locally constant function, in terms of a log-principalizaton of an ideal naturally attached to the mapping. Typically our new method provides a much shorter list of possible poles compared with the previous methods. We determine the largest real part of the poles of the Igusa zeta function, and then as a corollary, we obtain an asymptotic estimation for the number of solutions of an arbitrary system of polynomial congruences in terms of the log-canonical threshold of the subscheme given by the ideal attached to the mapping. We associate to an analytic mapping a Newton polyhedron and a new notion of non-degeneracy with respect to it. By constructing a log-principalization, we give an explicit list for the possible poles of the Igusa zeta function associated to a non-degenerate mapping.