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The present survey is dedicated to the history of the state of the art in the theory of regularized traces of linear differential operators. Attention is mainly paid to operators with discrete spectrum.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Sadovnichii, V.E. Podol’skii, 2009, published in Differentsial’nye Uravneniya, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 462–479.

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Sadovnichii, V.A., Podol’skii, V.E. Traces of differential operators. Diff Equat 45, 477–493 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012266109040028

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