In his 1976 proof of the converse of Herbrand’s theorem, Ribet used Eisenstein-cuspidal congruences to produce unramified degree $p$-extensions of the $p$-th cyclotomic field when $p$ is an odd prime. After reviewing Ribet’s strategy, we will discuss recent work with Preston Wake in which we apply similar techniques to produce unramified degree $p$-extensions of $\mathbb{Q}(N^{1/p})$ when $N$ is a prime that is congruent to -1 mod p. This answers a question posed on Frank Calegari’s blog.
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