Asymptotics of determinants of 4-th order operators at zero

Abstract: We consider fourth order ordinary differential operators with compactly supported coefficients on the half-line and on the line. The Fredholm determinant for this operator is an analytic function in the whole complex plane without zero. We describe the determinant at zero. We show that in the generic case it has a pole of order 4 in the case of the line and of order 1 in the case of the half-line.