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Arthur Forey

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arXiv2026

An orbifold formula for algebraic stacks

We study motivic integration on varieties that are birational to smooth algebraic stacks and prove a generalization of the orbifold formula for varieties with finite quotient singularities. This leads in particular to a new way of computing stringy E-functions and we also give applications to the study of klt-singularities. Along the way we study Cluckers-Loeser motivic integration on algebraic stacks, which might be of independent interest. The proof relies furthermore on ideas from Hrushovski-Kazhdan integration and Bruhat-Tits theory.

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arXiv2026

Jacobian graphs

We introduce jacobian graphs, which are explicit families of regular graphs that are spectrally indistinguishable from random graphs, but whose local structure is very different from that of random graphs. The construction relies on the geometric properties of generalized jacobians of curves and on general equidistribution theorems for character sums over finite fields.

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arXiv2025

Spectrally indistinguishable pseudorandom graphs

We construct explicit families of graphs whose eigenvalues are asymptotically distributed according to Wigner's semicircle law; in other words, that are spectrally indistinguishable from random graphs. However, in other respects they are strikingly dissimilar from random graphs; for example, they are $K_{2,3}$-free graphs with almost the maximum possible edge density.

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arXiv2023

A motivic Fundamental Lemma

In this paper we prove motivic versions of the Langlands-Shelstad Fundamental Lemma and Ng\^o's Geometric Stabilization. To achieve this, we follow the strategy from the recent proof by Groechenig, Wyss and Ziegler which avoided the use of perverse sheaves using instead $p$-adic integration and Tate duality. We make a key use of a construction of Denef and Loeser which assigns a virtual motive to any definable set in the theory of pseudo-finite fields.

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arXiv2023

Fixed-point statistics from spectral measures on tensor envelope categories

We prove some old and new convergence statements for fixed-points statistics using tensor envelope categories, such as the Deligne--Knop category of representations of the "symmetric group" $S_t$ for an indeterminate~$t$. We also discuss some arithmetic speculations related to Chebotarev's density theorem.

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arXiv2023

Sidon sets in algebraic geometry

We report new examples of Sidon sets in abelian groups arising from generalized jacobians of curves, and discuss some of their properties with respect to size and structure.

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arXiv2021

Arithmetic Fourier transforms over finite fields: generic vanishing, convolution, and equidistribution

We study the arithmetic Fourier transforms of trace functions on general connected commutative algebraic groups. To do so, we first prove a generic vanishing theorem for twists of perverse sheaves by characters, and using this tool, we construct a tannakian category with convolution as tensor operation. Using Deligne's Riemann Hypothesis, we show how this leads to a general equidistribution theorem for the discrete Fourier transforms of trace functions of perverse sheaves, generalizing the work of Katz in the case of the multiplicative group. We then give some concrete examples of applications of these results and raise a number of questions.

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arXiv2019

Bounded integral and motivic Milnor fiber

We construct a new motivic integration morphism, the so-call bounded integral, that interpolates both the integration morphisms with and without volume forms of Hrushovski and Kazhdan. This is done within the framework of model theory of algebraically closed valued fields of equicharacteristic zero. As an application, we recover and extend some results of Hrushovski and Loeser about the motivic Milnor fiber.

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arXiv2019

Uniform Yomdin-Gromov parametrizations and points of bounded height in valued fields

We prove a uniform version of non-Archimedean Yomdin-Gromov parametrizations in a definable context with algebraic Skolem functions in the residue field. The parametrization result allows us to bound the number of F_q[t]-points of bounded degrees of algebraic varieties, uniformly in the cardinality q of the finite field F_q and the degree, generalizing work by Sedunova for fixed q. We also deduce a uniform non-Archimedean Pila-Wilkie theorem, generalizing work by Cluckers-Comte-Loeser.

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arXiv2017

A motivic local Cauchy-Crofton formula

In this note, we establish a version of the local Cauchy-Crofton formula for definable sets in Henselian discretely valued fields of characteristic zero. It allows to compute the motivic local density of a set from the densities of its projections integrated over the Grassmannian.

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arXiv2017

Virtual rigid motives of semi-algebraic sets

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero containing all roots of unity and $K=k((t))$. We build a ring morphism from the Grothendieck group of semi-algebraic sets over $K$ to the Grothendieck group of motives of rigid analytic varieties over $K$. It extend the morphism sending the class of an algebraic variety over $K$ to its cohomological motive with compact support. We show that it fits inside a commutative diagram involving Hrushovski and Kazhdan's motivic integration and Ayoub's equivalence between motives of rigid analytic varieties over $K$ and quasi-unipotent motives over $k$ ; we also show that it satisfies a form of duality. This allows us to answer a question by Ayoub, Ivorra and Sebag about the analytic Milnor fiber.

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arXiv2015

Motivic local density

We develop a theory of local densities and tangent cones in a motivic framework, extending work by Cluckers-Comte-Loeser about $p$-adic local density. We prove some results about geometry of definable sets in Henselian valued fields of characteristic zero, both in semi-algebraic and subanalytic languages, and study Lipschitz continuous maps between such sets. We prove existence of regular stratifications satisfying analogous of Verdier condition $(w_f)$. Using Cluckers-Loeser theory of motivic integration, we define a notion of motivic local density with values in the Grothendieck ring of the theory of the residue sorts. We then prove the existence of a distinguished tangent cone and that one can compute the local density on this cone endowed with appropriate motivic multiplicities. As an application we prove a uniformity theorem for $p$-adic local density.

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