Basic analysis of regularized series and products (Q1310792)

We shall describe how parts of analytic number theory and parts of the spectral theory of certain operators (differential, pseudo-differential, elliptic, etc.) are being merged under a more general analytic theory of regularized products of certain sequences satisfying a few basic axioms. The most basic examples consist of the sequence of natural numbers, the sequence of zeros with positive imaginary part of the Riemann zeta-function, and the sequence of eigenvalues, say of a positive Laplacian on a compact manifold. The resulting theory applies to the zeta and \(L\)-functions of number theory, or representation theory and modular forms, to Selberg-like zeta functions in spectral theory, and to the theory of regularized determinants familiar in physics and other parts of mathematics.