Lemmermeyer's conjecture on 3-class groups of pure cubic fields

Let pp be a prime number such that p1(mod3)p\equiv 1\, (\mathrm{mod}\,3), let L=Q(p3)L=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{p}) be the corresponding pure cubic field, and let k=Q(p3,ζ3)\mathrm{k}=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{p},\zeta_3) be its normal closure. Write CL,3C_{L,3} and Ck,3C_{\mathrm{k},3} for the 33-components of the class groups of LL and k\mathrm{k}, respectively, and let (p)3\left(\frac{\cdot}{p}\right)_3 denote the cubic residue symbol. Lemmermeyer's conjecture. The following hold: (1) CL,3C_{L,3} is a cyclic 33-group, and if it contains a cyclic subgroup of order 99, then p1(mod9)p\equiv 1\,(\mathrm{mod}\,9). (2) If p4,7(mod9)p\equiv 4,7\,(\mathrm{mod}\,9), then

Ck,3{Z/3Zif (3p)31,(Z/3Z)2if (3p)3=1.C_{\mathrm{k},3}\simeq\begin{cases} \mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z} & \text{if } \left(\frac{3}{p}\right)_3\neq 1,\\ (\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z})^2 & \text{if } \left(\frac{3}{p}\right)_3=1. \end{cases}

(3) If p1(mod9)p\equiv 1\,(\mathrm{mod}\,9), then rankCk,3{1,2}\operatorname{rank} C_{\mathrm{k},3}\in\{1,2\}, independently of the value of (3p)3\left(\frac{3}{p}\right)_3. The conjecture gives a precise description of the relevant 33-class groups and their ranks for pure cubic fields and their normal closures. The case p1(mod9)p\equiv 1\,(\mathrm{mod}\,9) was partially proved by Gerth in 2005, while the case p4,7(mod9)p\equiv 4,7\,(\mathrm{mod}\,9) remains open.

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Siham Aouissi, Mohamed Talbi, Moulay Chrif Ismaili and Abdelmalek Azizi, “On a Conjecture of Lemmermeyer”, arXiv:1810.07172 (2019).

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