Talk:Faltings's theorem

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Wouldn't it make more sense to move this to Falting's theorem and redirect to there? user: Gene Ward Smith

Yes - I'll do the move. (BTW, as I mentioned on your user talk, Move Page does that, and creates the redirect.) Charles Matthews 10:56, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. Jafeluv (talk) 06:46, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

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Faltings' theorem → Faltings's theorem — This page should be moved to "Faltings's theorem." That is how possessives are formed. For example, see this book of Bombieri and Gubler for the correct usage. Using Faltings' implies that the theorem was proved by multiple people with the last name Falting, which is, of course, not the case. I would do the move myself, but I think my account is too new. Bwebste (talk) 07:29, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Incorrect, in this instance. The individual's name was "Faltings", therefore the possessive form would - in fact - be Faltings'. Strikerforce (talk) 07:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Agree with Strikerforce, no need to move, as the possessive is correctly formed.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Oppose per Sarek. The singular possessive can also be formed with a terminal s, as with other stems, but which one is "correct" is determined by usage (probably either; compare Faltings' own book), not by grammar books. English, a living language, is irregular. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:01, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose per the three comments above. Jenks24 (talk) 08:34, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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Sample application of Faltings' theorem in the 'Consequences' section

In the 'Consequences' section, the following is written.

A sample application of Faltings' theorem is to a weak form of Fermat's Last Theorem: for any fixed $n>4$ there are at most finitely many primitive integer solutions to $a^n+b^n=c^n$, since for such $n$ the curve $x^n+y^n=1$ has genus greater than $1$.

Here $n>4$ should be replaced by $n\ge 4$: in the case $n=4$ the genus is $3$, which is still greater than $1$. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.144 (talk) 14:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Anton Lapounov (talk) 12:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

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