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We present a proof that all straight domains are locally divided$\unicode{x2014}$thereby answering two open problems posed by Dobbs and Picavet, which appeared in the survey "Open Problems in Commutative Ring Theory" written by Cahen, Fontana, Frisch, and Glaz. In fact, we are able to prove a stronger result: a prime ideal of a domain is straight if and only if it is locally divided.
We show that any $n$-absorbing ideal must be strongly $n$-absorbing, which is the first of Anderson and Badawi's three interconnected conjectures on absorbing ideals. We prove this by introducing and studying objects called maximal and semimaximal collections, which are tools for analysing the multiplicative ideal structure of commutative rings. We also make heavy use of previous work on absorbing ideals done by Anderson and Badawi, Choi and Walker, Laradji, and Donadze, among others. At the end of this paper we pose three conjectures, each of which imply the last unsolved conjecture made by Anderson and Badawi.
We consider spaces of modular forms attached to definite orthogonal groups of low even rank and nontrivial level, equipped with Hecke operators defined by Kneser neighbours. After reviewing algorithms to compute with these spaces, we investigate endoscopy using theta series and a theorem of Rallis. Along the way, we exhibit many examples and pose several conjectures. As a first application, we express counts of Kneser neighbours in terms of coefficients of classical or Siegel modular forms, complementing work of Chenevier-Lannes. As a second application, we prove new instances of Eisenstein congruences of Ramanujan and Kurokawa-Mizumoto type.