Class numbers of CM-fields with solvable normal closure. (Q2747671)

\textit{H. Stark} [Invent. Math. 23, 135--152 (1974; Zbl 0278.12005)] showed that a zero of the Dedekind zeta function in a certain region is necessarily real and simple and used Stark zeros and Siegel zeros to conjecture that given a positive integer \(h\), there are only a finite number of CM-fields \(L\) with class number equal to \(h\). The author proves this conjecture for fields \(L\) of degree \(\geq 6\) whose normal closure is solvable. The ``degree \(\geq 6\)'' is due to the inequality deducing the finiteness result for class numbers and ``normal closure is solvable'' is concerned with Artin's holomorphy conjecture on Artin \(L\)-functions. Moreover he shows how to determine such CM-fields effectively.