On weakly co-Hopfian modules. (Q2470972)

Throughout all rings are associative with a non-zero identity and all modules are unitary. A module \(M\) is called `weakly co-Hopfian' if any injective endomorphism of \(M\) is essential. The author calls the modules with all submodules weakly co-Hopfian `completely weakly co-Hopfian modules'. For a right Noetherian ring \(R\) and a quasi-injective right \(R\)-module \(M\), it is shown that \(M\) is weakly co-Hopfian if and only if every homogeneous component of a decomposition of \(M\) into indecomposable quasi-injective submodules is a finite direct sum. The author also characterizes those right semiartinian rings and right FBN rings over which completely weakly co-Hopfian right modules are precisely right modules of finite uniform dimension.