CORRECTION TO REFERENCE LIST: Reference [10] should read: Chen G and Zhou J 1993 Vibration and Damping in Distributed Systems, Vol. I (Boca Raton: CRC Press) PUBLICATION DATA: S. A. Fulling, Systematics of the relationship between vacuum energy calculations and heat-kernel coefficients, J. Phys. A 36 (2003), 6857-6873. NOTE ADDED IN PROOF: What we have called "cylinder kernel" is named "Poisson kernel" in the mathematical literature. Also, the kernel of the operator (4.8) equals the restriction to positive t of the Green function used by C. M. Bender and P. Hays (1976 Phys. Rev. D 14, 2622--32) and hence the regularization (4.2) is equivalent to the prescription of Bender and Hays.