Let K_0(V/X) be the relative Grothendieck group of varieties over X in
obj(V), with V the category of (quasi-projective) algebraic (resp. compact
complex analytic) varieties over a base field k. Then we constructed the
motivic Hirzebruch class transformation in the algebraic context for k of
characteristic zero and in the compact complex analytic context. It unifies the
well-known three characteristic class transformations of singular varieties:
MacPherson's Chern class, Baum-Fulton-MacPherson's Todd class and the L-class
of Goresky-MacPherson and Cappell-Shaneson.
The Milnor-Hirzebruch class of a locally complete intersection X in an
algebraic manifold M measures the difference between the (Poincare dual of the)
Hirzebruch class of the virtual tangent bundle of X and, respectively, the
Brasselet-Schuermann-Yokura (homology) Hirzebruch class of X. In this note, we
calculate the Milnor-Hirzebruch class of a globally defined algebraic
hypersurface X in terms of the corresponding Hirzebruch invariants of singular
strata in a Whitney stratification of X.