Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
Responding to a question on right weakly semisimple rings due to Jain, Lopez-Permouth and Singh, we report the existence of a non-right-Noetherian ring R for which every uniform cyclic right it-module is weakly-injective and every uniform finitely generated right R-module is compressible. We show that a ring R is a right Noetherian ring for which every cyclic right R-module is weakly R-injective if and only if R is a right Noetherian ring for which every uniform cyclic right R-module is compressible if and only if every cyclic right R-module is compressible. Finally, we characterise those modules M for which every finitely generated (respectively, cyclic) module in σ[M] is compressible.