MP-INJECTIVE RINGS AND MGP-INJECTIVE RINGS

A ring R is said to be right MP-injective if every monomorphism from a principal right ideal to R extends to an endomorphism of R. A ring R is said to be right MGP-injective if, for any 0 not equal a is an element of R, there exists a positive integer n such that a(n) not equal 0 and every monomorphism from a(n)R to R extends to R. We shall study characterizations and properties of these two classes of rings. Some interesting results on these rings are obtained. In particular, conditions under which right MGP-injective rings are semisimple artinian rings, von Neumann regular rings, and QF-rings are given.