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by jhanschoo 322 days ago
In addition to other comments, see https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fermats-last-th...

In particular, note that a key lemma of crystalline cohomology rests on a mistake. Experts think that it is fixable by virtue that results have depended on it for a long time and no issue was found, but it is not fixed.

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> and my understanding of Maria Ines’ talk is that these issues have now been sorted out
I think you are trying to say that this matter has since been resolved and so presumably the whole informal proof somehow resides in literature. I suppose that to the first point you may be right (I'm guessing that it's since been made available), but to the second point I think you are overconfident that similar gaps do not exist.

I admit that my original comment was inaccurate, as it seems to suggest that the gap still exists.