English

Potential modularity---a survey

Number Theory 2011-09-13 v2

Abstract

A Spitalfields Day at the Newton Institute was organised on the subject of the recent theorem that any elliptic curve over any totally real field is potentially modular. This article is a survey of the strategy of the proof, together with some history.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1101.0097,
  title  = {Potential modularity---a survey},
  author = {Kevin Buzzard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0097},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Written at the request of the editors of the volume "Nonabelian Fundamental Groups and Iwasawa Theory", a book arising from the six month programme "Non-abelian fundamental groups in arithmetic geometry" at the Isaac Newton Institute in 2009. This (final) version of the paper fixes a few typos and a historical inaccuracy

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