RT Journal Article T1 A power structure over the Grothendieck ring of varieties A1 Gusein-Zade, Sabir Medgidovich A1 Luengo Velasco, Ignacio A1 Melle Hernández, Alejandro AB Let R be either the Grothendieck semiring (semigroup with multiplication) of complex quasi-projective varieties, or the Grothendieck ring of these varieties, or the Grothendieck ring localized by the class \L of the complex affine line. We define a power structure over these (semi)rings. This means that, for a power series A(t)=1+∑i=1∞[Ai]ti with the coefficients [Ai] from R and for [M]∈R, there is defined a series (A(t))[M], also with coefficients from R, so that all the usual properties of the exponential function hold. In the particular case A(t)=(1−t)−1, the series (A(t))[M] is the motivic zeta function introduced by M. Kapranov. As an application we express the generating function of the Hilbert scheme of points, 0-dimensional subschemes, on a surface as an exponential of the surface. PB International Press SN 1073-2780 YR 2004 FD 2004 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50128 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50128 LA eng NO The authors are thankful to Tomás L. Gómez for useful discussions. Partially supported by the grants RFBR–01–01–00739, INTAS–00–259, NWO–RFBR–047.008.005. The last two authors were partially supported by the grant BFM2001–1488–C02–01. DS Docta Complutense RD 10 abr 2025