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GENERALIZED NON-ABELIAN RECIPROCITY LAWS: A CONTEXT FOR WILES' PROOF

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

AVNER ASH
Affiliation:
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1174, USA
ROBERT GROSS
Affiliation:
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806, USA
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Abstract

In as elementary a way as possible, we place Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem into the context of a general description of reciprocity conjectured to obtain between algebraic varieties defined over Q and Hecke eigenvectors in the homology of the spaces of lattices in Rn.

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© The London Mathematical Society 2000

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