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Re:‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem by QuesnayJr on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:54AM (#22814036)
But they don't mean the general case, do they? If I look at the abstract for the 10-author paper, they talk about CM fields.
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Re:‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem by williamstein on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:32PM (#22818671)
You're right -- they do not and are instead restricting to certain specific classes of number fields. Proving some notion of modularity of all elliptic curves over all number fields is surely completely out of reach at present.
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