Abstract
We discuss general notions of the regularisation and renormalisation of ground-state observables in quantum field theory. We evoke a theorem by Ramanujan to introduce the concept of the cut-off independent parts of vacuum observables and discuss their measurement and methods for their calculation. The role of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer spectral invariants in determining the vacuum structure of relativistic matter fields is illustrated.
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