Relative purity over noetherian rings

In this note we are going to show that if M is a left module over a left noetherian ring R of the infinite cardinality λ ≥ |R|, then its injective hull E(M) is of the same size. Further, if M is an injective module with |M| ≥ (2^λ)⁺ and K ≤ M is its submodule such that |M/K| ≤ λ, then K contains an injective submodule L with |M/L| ≤ 2^λ. These results are applied to modules which are torsionfree with respect to a given hereditary torsion theory and generalize the results obtained by different methods in author’s previous papers: A note on pure subgroups, Contributions to General Algebra 12. Proceedings of the Vienna Conference, June 3–6, 1999, Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt, 2000, pp. 105–107], Pure subgroups, Math. Bohem. 126 (2001), 649–652]. This research has been partially supported by the Grant Agency of the Charles University, grant #GAUK 301-10/203115/B-MAT/MFF and also by the institutional grant MSM 113 200 007.