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I've looked at published papers involving this regularization and it is most commonly associated with string theory. String theory is officially dying out, the LCH has continuously announced it has failed to find evidence at supports String Theory.
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{{Renormalization and regularization}}
 
In [[mathematics]] and [[theoretical physics]], '''[[Riemann zeta function|zeta function]] regularization''' is a type of [[regularization (mathematics)|regularization]] or [[summability method]] that assigns finite values to [[Divergent series|divergent sums]] or products, and in particular can be used to define [[determinant]]s and [[trace (linear algebra)|trace]]s of some [[self-adjoint operator]]s. The technique is now commonly applied to a very limited array of problems in [[physics]], but has its origins in attempts to give precise meanings to ill-conditioned sums appearing in [[number theory]].
 
==Definition==