We compare several different concepts of integer-valued polynomials on algebras and collect the few results and many open questions to be found in the literature.

The important ideas of reduction and integral closure of an ideal in a commutative Noetherian ring A (with identity) were introduced by Northcott and Rees [4]; a brief and direct approach to their theory is given in [6, (1.1)]. We begin by briefly summarizing some of the main aspects.

In this paper, we deal with the study of intermediate domains between a domain $R$ and a domain $T$ such that $T$ is an intersection of localizations of $R$, namely the pair $\left(R,T\right)$. More precisely, we study the pair $\left(R,R_d\right)$ and the pair $\left(R,\tilde{R}\right)$, where $R_d=\cap \left\{R_M\mid M\in \text{Max}\left(R\right),htM=dimR\right\}$ and $\tilde{R}=\cap \left\{R_M\mid M\in \text{Max}\left(R\right),htM\ge 2\right\}$. We prove that, if $R$ is a Jaffard domain, then $\left(R,R_d\left[n\right]\right)$ is a Jaffard pair, which generalize [5, Théorème 1.9]. We also show that if $R$ is an $S$-domain, then $\left(R,\tilde{R}\right)$ is a residually algebraic pair (that is for each intermediate domain $S$ between $R$ and $\tilde{R}$, if $Q$ is a prime ideal of $S$...

Let $𝒵\left(ℛ\right)$ be the set of zero divisor elements of a commutative ring $R$ with identity and $ℳ$ be the space of minimal prime ideals of $R$ with Zariski topology. An ideal $I$ of $R$ is called strongly dense ideal or briefly $sd$-ideal if $I\subseteq 𝒵\left(ℛ\right)$ and $I$ is contained in no minimal prime ideal. We denote by $R_K\left(ℳ\right)$, the set of all $a\in R$ for which $\overline{D\left(a\right)}=\overline{ℳ\setminus V\left(a\right)}$ is compact. We show that $R$ has property $\left(A\right)$ and $ℳ$ is compact if and only if $R$ has no $sd$-ideal. It is proved that $R_K\left(ℳ\right)$ is an essential ideal (resp., $sd$-ideal) if and only if $ℳ$ is an almost locally compact...

A fairly old problem in modular representation theory is to determine the vanishing behavior of the $\mathrm{H}om$ groups and higher $\mathrm{E}xt$ groups of Weyl modules and to compute the dimension of the $\mathbb{Z}/\left(p\right)$-vector space ${\mathrm{H}om}_{{\overline{A}}_r}({\overline{K}}_{\lambda },{\overline{K}}_{\mu })$ for any partitions $\lambda$, $\mu$ of $r$, which is the intertwining number. K. Akin, D. A. Buchsbaum, and D. Flores solved this problem in the cases of partitions of length two and three. In this paper, we describe the vanishing behavior of the groups ${\mathrm{H}om}_{{\overline{A}}_r}({\overline{K}}_{\lambda },{\overline{K}}_{\mu })$ and provide a new formula for the intertwining number for any...

The vertex algebra ${𝒲}_{1+\infty ,c}$ with central charge $c$ may be defined as a module over the universal central extension of the Lie algebra of differential operators on the circle. For an integer $n\ge 1$, it was conjectured in the physics literature that ${𝒲}_{1+\infty ,-n}$ should have a minimal strong generating set consisting of $n^2+2n$ elements. Using a free field realization of ${𝒲}_{1+\infty ,-n}$ due to Kac–Radul, together with a deformed version of Weyl’s first and second fundamental theorems of invariant theory for the standard representation of ${\text{GL}}_n$,...