Given an algebraic number field $k$ and a finite group $\Gamma$, we write $ℛ\left(O_k\left[\Gamma \right]\right)$ for the subset of the locally free classgroup $\mathrm{Cl}\left(O_k\left[\Gamma \right]\right)$ consisting of the classes of rings of integers $O_N$ in tame Galois extensions $N/k$ with $\mathrm{Gal}(N/k)\cong \Gamma$. We determine $ℛ\left(O_k\left[\Gamma \right]\right)$, and show it is a subgroup of $\mathrm{Cl}\left(O_k\left[\Gamma \right]\right)$ by means of a description using a Stickelberger ideal and properties of some cyclic codes, when $k$ contains a root of unity of prime order $p$ and $\Gamma =V⋊C$, where $V$ is an elementary abelian group of order $p^r$ and $C$ is a cyclic group of order $m\>1$ acting faithfully on...

Let $L/K$ be an extension of algebraic number fields, where $L$ is abelian over $\mathbb{Q}$. In this paper we give an explicit description of the associated order ${𝒜}_{L/K}$ of this extension when $K$ is a cyclotomic field, and prove that $o_L$, the ring of integers of $L$, is then isomorphic to ${𝒜}_{L/K}$. This generalizes previous results of Leopoldt, Chan Lim and Bley. Furthermore we show that ${𝒜}_{L/K}$ is the maximal order if $L/K$ is a cyclic and totally wildly ramified extension which is linearly disjoint to ${\mathbb{Q}}^{\left(m^{\text{'}}\right)}/K$, where $m^{\text{'}}$ is the conductor of $K$.

We prove that any Galois extension of a commutative ring with a normal basis and abelian Galois group of odd order has a self-dual normal basis. We apply this result to get a very simple proof of nonexistence of normal bases for certain extensions which are of interest in number theory.