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In this paper we discuss two results in commutative algebra that are used in A. Wiles’s proof that all semi-stable elliptic curves over Q are modular [11].
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De Smit, B., Rubin, K., Schoof, R. (1997). Criteria for Complete Intersections. In: Cornell, G., Silverman, J.H., Stevens, G. (eds) Modular Forms and Fermat’s Last Theorem. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1974-3_11
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