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		QuesnayJr on April 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Las... 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.

williamstein on April 9, 2020 [–]

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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