Ring extensions, injective covers and envelopes

Abstract.

The present paper is devoted to the study of those rings R such that for any ring homomorphism $R\rightarrow S$ the functor ${\rm Hom}_R(S,-):R{\rm -Mod} \rightarrow S{\rm -Mod}$ preserves injective envelopes or injective covers.¶The case of injective envelopes has been studied by T. Würfel ([9]), who gave a characterization of such rings (Theorem 10). In this paper we give another characterization of those rings in Section 2. One of the tools we use is a generalization of a certain type of module initially studied by Northcott ([4]), McKerrow ([3]) and Park ([5] and [6]).¶The case of injective covers is treated in Section 3, where we give a complete characterization of commutative noetherian rings satisfying the property mentioned above.