IGUSA’S CONJECTURE FOR EXPONENTIAL SUMS: OPTIMAL ESTIMATES FOR NONRATIONAL SINGULARITIES

Abstract

We prove an upper bound on the log canonical threshold of a hypersurface that satisfies a certain power condition and use it to prove several generalizations of Igusa’s conjecture on exponential sums, with the log canonical threshold in the exponent of the estimates. We show that this covers optimally all situations of the conjectures for nonrational singularities by comparing the log canonical threshold with a local notion of the motivic oscillation index.