Zeta and Fredholm determinants of self-adjoint operators

Let L be a self-adjoint invertible operator in a Hilbert space such that L is p-summable. Under a certain discrete dimension spectrum assumption on L, we study the relation between the (regularized) Fredholm determinant, detp(I+z·L ), on the one hand and the zeta regularized determinant, detζ(L+z), on the other. One of the main results is the formula detζ(L + z) detζ(L) = exp ( p−1 ∑ j=1 z j! · d dzj log detζ(L + z)|z=0 ) · detp(I + z · L −1 ). We show that the derivatives d j dzj log detζ(L+ z)|z=0 can be expressed in terms of (regularized) zeta values and heat trace coefficients of L. Furthermore, we give a general criterion in terms of the heat trace coefficients (and which is, e.g., fulfilled for large classes of elliptic operators) which guarantees that the constant term in the asymptotic expansion of the Fredholm determinant, log detp(I+z·L ), equals the zeta determinant of L.