Characterizing rings in terms of the extent of the injectivity and projectivity of their modules. (Q1938538)

For a ring \(R\), the module \(M\) is injective relative to \(N\) if for any submodule \(K\) of \(N\) the induced map \(\Hom_R(N,M)\to\Hom_R(K,M)\) is surjective. For fixed \(M\), the \textit{injectivity domain} \(\mathcal In^{-1}(M)\) is the collection of all \(N\), such that \(M\) is relative injective to \(N\). One may note that the injectivity domain of \(M\) is the entire module category if and only if \(M\) is injective. Finally, the \textit{i-profile} of \(R\) is the collection of all injectivity domains, that is \(\{\mathcal In^{-1}(M)\mid M\in\text{Mod-}R\}\). The paper under review studies the structure of i-profiles of rings (as posets), and of p-profiles (defined dually via relative projective modules). At the same time the authors also consider the question what properties of the poset (for instance it being linearly ordered) mean for the structure of the ring \(R\).