The Kummer ratio of the relative class number for prime cyclotomic fields

Kummer's conjecture predicts the asymptotic growth of the relative class number of prime cyclotomic fields. We substantially improve the known bounds of Kummer's ratio under three scenarios: no Siegel zero, presence of Siegel zero and assuming the Riemann Hypothesis for the Dirichlet L-series attached to odd characters only. The numerical work in this paper extends and improves on our earlier preprint https:// arxiv .org /abs /1908 .01152 and demonstrates our theoretical results. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons .org /licenses /by -nc /4 .0/).