Bicyclic commutator quotients with one non-elementary component

Abstract

For any number field K with non-elementary 3-class group Cl(3,K) = C(3^e) x C(3), e >= 2, the punctured capitulation type kappa(K) of K in its unramified cyclic cubic extensions Li, 1 <= i <= 4, is an orbit under the action of S3 x S3. By means of Artin's reciprocity law, the arithmetical invariant kappa(K) is translated to the punctured transfer kernel type kappa(G2) of the automorphism group G2 = Gal(F(3,2,K)/K) of the second Hilbert 3-class field of K. A classification of finite 3-groups G with low order and bicyclic commutator quotient G/G' = C(3^e) x C(3), 2 <= e <= 6, according to the algebraic invariant kappa(G), admits conclusions concerning the length of the Hilbert 3-class field tower F(3,infty,K) of imaginary quadratic number fields K.