Is the multiplicative anomaly dependent on the regularization ?

Abstract

In a recent work, T.S. Evans has claimed that the multiplicative anomaly associated with the zeta-function regularization of functional determinants is regularization dependent. We show that, if one makes use of consistent definitions, this is not the case and clarify some points in Evans' argument.

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