Left W M C2 Rings.

We introduce in this paper the concept of left WMC2 rings and concern ourselves with rings containing an injective maximal left ideal. Some known results for left idempotent reflexive rings and left HI rings can be extended to left WMC2 rings. As applications, we are able to give some new characterizations of regular left self-injective rings with nonzero socle and extend some known results on strongly regular rings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]