%0 Journal Article %T Regularized determinants of Laplace type operators, analytic surgery and relative determinants %A Joern Mueller %A Werner Mueller %J Mathematics %D 2004 %I arXiv %X We study the asymptotic behaviour of regularized determinants of certain Laplace type operators with respect to singular deformations of the underlying manifold which are obtained by stretching a tubular neighborhood of an embedded separating hypersurface to a cylinder of infinite length. Using the asymptotic expansions, we derive adiabatic splitting formulas for regularized determinants of Laplace type operators. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411634v1