Determining class groups as Galois modules up to equivalence for some nonabelian extensions

Abstract: In previous papers, the Galois module structure of minus class groups was studied for abelian CM extensions. In this paper, we discuss some nonabelian cases, focusing on metacyclic extensions. For a certain class of these, we obtain a complete description of the Galois modules that occur as minus class groups, modulo a certain equivalence relation on modules, which was introduced earlier by the same authors.