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We propose a technique for regularizing the determinant of a non-invertible elliptic operator restricted to the complement of its nilpotent elements. We apply this approach to the study of chiral changes in the fermionic path-integral variables.
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Gamboa-Saraví, R.E., Muschietti, M.A. & Solomin, J.E. On the regularized determinant for non-invertible elliptic operators. Commun.Math. Phys. 93, 407–415 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01258537
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01258537