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{{Distinguish|Serre's modularity conjecture}}
▲{{short description|Relates elliptic curves over the field of rational numbers to modular forms}}
{{Infobox mathematical statement
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==Statement==
{{More citations needed|section|date=March 2021}}<!--added after harvard style citations converted to short foot notes-->
The [[theorem]] states that any [[elliptic curve]] over <math>\
===Related statements===
The modularity theorem implies a closely related analytic statement:
To each elliptic curve
:<math>L(E, s) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{a_n}{n^s}.</math>
The [[generating function]] of the coefficients {{math|''a''<
:<math>f(E, q) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n q^n.</math>
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:<math>q = e^{2 \pi i \tau}</math>
we see that we have written the [[Fourier series|Fourier expansion]] of a function
Some modular forms of weight two, in turn, correspond to [[holomorphic differential]]s for an elliptic curve. The Jacobian of the modular curve can (up to isogeny) be written as a product of irreducible [[Abelian varieties]], corresponding to Hecke eigenforms of weight 2. The 1-dimensional factors are elliptic curves (there can also be higher-dimensional factors, so not all Hecke eigenforms correspond to rational elliptic curves). The curve obtained by finding the corresponding cusp form, and then constructing a curve from it, is [[Elliptic curve#Isogeny|isogenous]] to the original curve (but not, in general, isomorphic to it).
==History==
{{see also|Taniyama's problems}}
[[Yutaka Taniyama]]{{sfn|Taniyama|1956}}<!--{{harvs|txt|authorlink=Yutaka Taniyama|last=Taniyama|first=Yutaka|year=1956}}--> stated a preliminary (slightly incorrect) version of the conjecture at the 1955 international symposium on algebraic number theory in [[Tokyo]] and [[Nikkō, Tochigi|Nikkō]]. [[Goro Shimura]] and Taniyama worked on improving its rigor until 1957. André Weil{{sfn|Weil|1967}}<!--{{harvs|txt|authorlink=André Weil|last=Weil|first=André|year= 1967}}--> rediscovered the conjecture, and showed in 1967 that it would follow from the (conjectured) functional equations for some twisted <math>L</math>-series of the elliptic curve; this was the first serious evidence that the conjecture might be true. Weil also showed that the conductor of the elliptic curve should be the level of the corresponding modular form. The Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture became a part of the [[Langlands program]].▼
{{further|Fermat's Last Theorem|Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem}}▼
▲[[Yutaka Taniyama]]{{sfn|Taniyama|1956}}<!--{{harvs|txt|authorlink=Yutaka Taniyama|last=Taniyama|first=Yutaka|year=1956}}--> stated a preliminary (slightly incorrect) version of the conjecture at the 1955 international symposium on [[algebraic number theory]] in [[Tokyo]] and [[Nikkō, Tochigi|Nikkō]] as the twelfth of his [[Taniyama's problems|set of 36 unsolved problems]]. [[Goro Shimura]] and Taniyama worked on improving its rigor until 1957. [[André Weil]]{{sfn|Weil|1967}}<!--{{harvs|txt|authorlink=André Weil|last=Weil|first=André|year= 1967}}--> rediscovered the conjecture, and showed in 1967 that it would follow from the (conjectured) functional equations for some twisted
| last = Lang
| first = Serge
| date = November 1995
| title = Some History of the Shimura-Taniyama Conjecture
| journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society
| volume = 42
| issue = 11
| pages = 1301–1307
| url = https://www.ams.org/notices/199511/forum.pdf
| access-date = 2022-11-08
}}</ref>
The conjecture attracted considerable interest when [[Gerhard Frey (mathematician)|Gerhard Frey]]{{sfn|Frey|1986}}<!--{{harvs|txt|authorlink=Gerhard Frey (mathematician)|last=Frey|first=Gerhard|year=1986}}--> suggested in 1986 that it implies [[Fermat's Last Theorem|FLT]]. He did this by attempting to show that any counterexample to
Even after gaining serious attention, the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture was seen by contemporary mathematicians as extraordinarily difficult to prove or perhaps even inaccessible to proof<!--{{harv|Singh|1997|pp=203–205, 223, 226}}-->.{{sfn|Singh|1997|pp=203–205, 223, 226}} For example, Wiles's Ph.D. supervisor [[John H. Coates|John Coates]] states that it seemed "impossible to actually prove", and Ken Ribet considered himself "one of the vast majority of people who believed [it] was completely inaccessible".
With Ribet’s proof of the epsilon conjecture, Andrew Wiles saw an opportunity: Fermat’s Last Theorem was a respectable research project because it was now a corollary of the TSW conjecture. He had expertise in [[Iwasawa theory]]; maybe there was a path from Iwasawa theory to Taniyama–Shimura–Weil.
In 1995 Andrew Wiles, with some help from [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]], proved the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture for all [[semistable elliptic curve]]s, which he used to prove Fermat's Last Theorem,{{sfnm|Wiles|1995a|Wiles|1995b}}<!--{{harvs|txt|authorlink=Andrew Wiles|last=Wiles|year=1995}}--> and the full Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture was finally proved by Diamond,{{sfn|Diamond|1996}}<!--{{harvtxt|Diamond|1996}}--> Conrad, Diamond & Taylor; and Breuil, Conrad, Diamond & Taylor; building on Wiles's work, they incrementally chipped away at the remaining cases until the full result was proved in 1999.{{sfn|Conrad|Diamond|Taylor|1999}}<!--{{harvtxt|Conrad|Diamond|Taylor|1999}}-->{{sfn|Breuil|Conrad|Diamond|Taylor|2001}}<!--{{harvtxt|Breuil|Conrad|Diamond|Taylor|2001}}--> ▼
▲{{further|Fermat's Last Theorem|Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem}}
▲In 1995, Andrew Wiles, with some help from [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]], proved the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture for all [[semistable elliptic curve]]s
Several theorems in number theory similar to
In 2025, modularity was extended to over 10% of [[abelian surfaces]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Howlett |first=Joseph |date=2025-06-02 |title=The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered |url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-core-of-fermats-last-theorem-just-got-superpowered-20250602/ |access-date=2025-08-06 |website=Quanta Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
==Generalizations==
The modularity theorem is a special case of more general conjectures due to [[Robert Langlands]]. The [[Langlands program]] seeks to attach an [[automorphic form]] or [[automorphic representation]] (a suitable generalization of a modular form) to more general objects of [[arithmetic algebraic geometry]], such as to every elliptic curve over a [[number field]]. Most cases of these extended conjectures have not yet been proved.
In ==Example==
For example,<ref>For the calculations, see for example {{harvnb|Zagier|1985|pp=225–248}}</ref><ref>LMFDB: http://www.lmfdb.org/EllipticCurve/Q/37/a/1</ref><ref>OEIS: https://oeis.org/A007653</ref> the elliptic curve
:<math>f(z) = q - 2q^2 - 3q^3 + 2q^4 - 2q^5 + 6q^6 + \cdots, \qquad q = e^{2 \pi i z}</math>
For prime numbers
The conjecture, going back to the 1950s, was completely proven by 1999 using the ideas of [[Andrew Wiles]], who proved it in 1994 for a large family of elliptic curves.<ref>A synthetic presentation (in French) of the main ideas can be found in [http://www.numdam.org/item/SB_1994-1995__37__319_0/ this] [[Nicolas Bourbaki|Bourbaki]] article of [[Jean-Pierre Serre]]. For more details see {{Harvard citations |last=Hellegouarch |year=2001 |nb=yes}}</ref>
There are several formulations of the conjecture. Showing that they are equivalent was a main challenge of number theory in the second half of the 20th century. The modularity of an elliptic curve
For example, a modular parametrization of the curve
:<math>\begin{align}
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\end{align}</math>
where, as above, {{math|''q'' {{=}}
:<math>x\!\left(\frac{az + b}{cz + d}\right) = x(z)</math>
and likewise for {{math|''y''(''z'')}}, for all integers {{math|''a'', ''b'', ''c'', ''d''}} with {{math|''ad'' − ''bc'' {{=}} 1}} and
Another formulation depends on the comparison of [[Galois representation]]s attached on the one hand to elliptic curves, and on the other hand to modular forms. The latter formulation has been used in the proof of the conjecture. Dealing with the level of the forms (and the connection to the conductor of the curve) is particularly delicate.
The most spectacular application of the conjecture is the proof of [[Fermat's Last Theorem|FLT]] (FLT). Suppose that for a prime {{math|''p'' ≥ 5}}, the Fermat equation
:<math>a^p + b^p = c^p</math>
has a solution with non-zero integers, hence a counter-example to FLT. Then as
:<math>y^2 = x(x - a^p)(x + b^p)</math>
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:<math>\Delta = \frac{1}{256}(abc)^{2p}</math>
cannot be modular.{{sfn|Ribet|1990}} Thus, the proof of the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture for this family of elliptic curves (called Hellegouarch–Frey curves) implies FLT. The proof of the link between these two statements, based on an idea of [[Gerhard Frey (mathematician)|Gerhard Frey]] (1985), is difficult and technical. It was established by [[Kenneth Ribet]] in 1987.<ref>See the survey of {{cite journal |first=K. |last=Ribet |title=From the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture to Fermat's Last Theorem |journal=Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse |volume=11 |year=1990b |pages=116–139 |doi= 10.5802/afst.698|url=http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AFST_1990_5_11_1_116_0 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
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*{{Citation | last1=Breuil | first1=Christophe | last2=Conrad | first2=Brian | last3=Diamond | first3=Fred | last4=Taylor | first4=Richard | title=On the modularity of elliptic curves over '''Q''': wild 3-adic exercises | doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00370-8 | mr=1839918 | year=2001 | journal=[[Journal of the American Mathematical Society]] | issn=0894-0347 | volume=14 | issue=4 | pages=843–939| doi-access=free }}
*{{Citation | last1=Conrad | first1=Brian | last2=Diamond | first2=Fred | last3=Taylor | first3=Richard | title=Modularity of certain potentially Barsotti–Tate Galois representations | doi=10.1090/S0894-0347-99-00287-8 | mr=1639612 | year=1999 | journal=[[Journal of the American Mathematical Society]] | issn=0894-0347 | volume=12 | issue=2 | pages=521–567| doi-access=free }}
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*{{Citation | last1=Darmon | first1=Henri | title=A proof of the full Shimura–Taniyama–Weil conjecture is announced | url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199911/comm-darmon.pdf | mr=1723249 | year=1999 | journal=[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society]] | issn=0002-9920 | volume=46 | issue=11 | pages=1397–1401}}Contains a gentle introduction to the theorem and an outline of the proof.
*{{Citation | last1=Diamond | first1=Fred | title=On deformation rings and Hecke rings | doi=10.2307/2118586 | mr=1405946 | year=1996 | journal=[[Annals of Mathematics]] |series=Second Series | issn=0003-486X | volume=144 | issue=1 | pages=137–166| jstor=2118586 }}
*{{Citation | last1=Freitas | first1=Nuno | last2 = Le Hung | first2 = Bao V. | last3 = Siksek | first3 = Samir | title=Elliptic curves over real quadratic fields are modular | year=2015 | journal=[[Inventiones Mathematicae]] | issn=0020-9910 | volume=201 | issue=1 | pages=159–206 | doi=10.1007/s00222-014-0550-z | mr=3359051| arxiv=1310.7088 | bibcode=2015InMat.201..159F | s2cid=119132800 }}
*{{Citation | last1=Frey | first1=Gerhard | title=Links between stable elliptic curves and certain Diophantine equations | mr=853387 | year=1986 | journal=Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Series Mathematicae | issn=0933-8268 | volume=1 | issue=1 | pages=iv+40}}
*{{Citation | last1=Mazur | first1=Barry | author1-link=Barry Mazur | title=Number theory as gadfly | doi=10.2307/2324924 | mr=1121312 | year=1991 | journal=[[American Mathematical Monthly|The American Mathematical Monthly]] | issn=0002-9890 | volume=98 | issue=7 | pages=593–610| jstor=2324924 }} Discusses the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture 3 years before it was proven for infinitely many cases.
*{{Citation | last1=Ribet | first1=Kenneth A. | title=On modular representations of Gal({{overline|'''Q'''}}/'''Q''') arising from modular forms | doi=10.1007/BF01231195 | mr=1047143 | year=1990 | journal=[[Inventiones Mathematicae]] | issn=0020-9910 | volume=100 | issue=2 | pages=431–476| bibcode=1990InMat.100..431R | hdl=10338.dmlcz/147454 | s2cid=120614740 | hdl-access=free }}
*{{Citation | last1=Serre | first1=Jean-Pierre | author1-link=Jean-Pierre Serre | title=Sur les représentations modulaires de degré 2 de Gal({{overline|Q}}/Q) | doi=10.1215/S0012-7094-87-05413-5 | mr=885783 | year=1987 | journal=[[Duke Mathematical Journal]] | issn=0012-7094 | volume=54 | issue=1 | pages=179–230}}
*{{Citation | last1=Shimura | first1=Goro | title=Yutaka Taniyama and his time. Very personal recollections | doi=10.1112/blms/21.2.186 | mr=976064 | year=1989 | journal=The Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society | issn=0024-6093 | volume=21 | issue=2 | pages=186–196| doi-access=free }}
*{{Citation | last1=Singh | first1=Simon | author-link=Simon Singh | title = Fermat's Last Theorem | year=1997| publisher=Fourth Estate | isbn=978-1-85702-521-7}}
*{{citation|last=Taniyama|first=Yutaka |journal=Sugaku|volume=7|page=269|year=1956|title=Problem 12|language=ja}} English translation in {{harv|Shimura|1989|loc=p. 194}}
*{{Citation | last1=Taylor | first1=Richard | last2=Wiles | first2=Andrew | author2-link=Andrew Wiles | title=Ring-theoretic properties of certain Hecke algebras | doi=10.2307/2118560 | mr=1333036 | year=1995 | journal=[[Annals of Mathematics]] |series=Second Series | issn=0003-486X | volume=141 | issue=3 | pages=553–572| jstor=2118560 | citeseerx=10.1.1.128.531 }}
*{{Citation | last1=Weil | first1=André | author1-link=André Weil | title=Über die Bestimmung Dirichletscher Reihen durch Funktionalgleichungen | doi=10.1007/BF01361551 | mr=0207658 | year=1967 | journal=[[Mathematische Annalen]] | issn=0025-5831 | volume=168 | pages=149–156| s2cid=120553723 }}
*{{Citation | last1=Wiles | first1=Andrew | author1-link=Andrew Wiles | title=Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's last theorem | jstor=2118559 | mr=1333035 | year=1995a | journal=[[Annals of Mathematics]] |series=Second Series | issn=0003-486X | volume=141 | issue=3 | pages=443–551 | doi=10.2307/2118559| citeseerx=10.1.1.169.9076 }}
*{{Citation | last1=Wiles | first1=Andrew | author1-link=Andrew Wiles | title=Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. 1, 2 (Zürich, 1994) | publisher=Birkhäuser | ___location=Basel, Boston, Berlin | mr=1403925 | year=1995b | chapter=Modular forms, elliptic curves, and Fermat's last theorem | pages=243–245}}
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