Let F be a cubic cyclic field with t(2)ramified primes.For a finite abelian group G,let r3(G)be the 3-rank of G.If 3 does not ramify in F,then it is proved that t-1 r3(K2O F)2t.Furthermore,if t is fixed,for any s satisfying t-1 s 2t-1,there is always a cubic cyclic field F with exactly t ramified primes such that r3(K2O F)=s.It is also proved that the densities for 3-ranks of tame kernels of cyclic cubic number fields satisfy a Cohen-Lenstra type formula d∞,r=3-r2∞k=1(1-3-k)r k=1(1-3-k)2.This suggests that the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture for ideal class groups can be extended to the tame kernels of cyclic cubic number fields.
