Weakly-injective rings and modules (Q1199256)

Let \(M\) and \(N\) be (right) modules over a ring \(R\) and let \(E(M)\) be an injective hull of \(M\). Then \(M\) is called weakly \(N\)-injective if given any homomorphism \(f: N \to E(M)\) we have \(f(N) \subseteq X\) where \(X\) is a submodule of \(E(M)\) isomorphic to \(M\). If the module \(R\) is weakly \(N\)- injective for all finitely generated \(R\)-modules \(N\) then \(R\) is called a right weakly-injective ring. In fact \(R\) is a right weakly-injective ring if and only if \(R\) is weakly \(R^ 2\)-injective, but weak \(R\)-injectivity is strictly weaker than this, even in the presence of some strong additional hypotheses on \(R\), as various examples in the current paper show. The authors show, among other things, the following: (1) A von Neumann regular ring is right self-injective iff it is right weakly- injective. (2) A right non-singular ring is both right and left weakly- injective iff its left and right injective hulls coincide and equal its left and right maximal and classical quotient rings. (3) A right non- singular ring \(R\) is right weakly-injective iff the matrix ring \(S=M_ n(R)\) is right weakly-injective for any \(n \geq 1\). (4) An integral domain \(R\) is right weakly-injective iff \(S\) is a weakly \(S\)-injective module iff \(T\) is a weakly \(T\)-injective module, where \(T\) is the ring of \(n \times n\) upper triangular matrices over \(R\), for any \(n\).