trailA proof of the abc conjecture would yield new proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem and Catalan's Conjecture.
The abc conjecture implies Fermat's Last Theorem for all sufficiently large exponents
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The abc conjecture implies the Catalan equation x^p − y^q = 1 has only finitely many solutions
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Only an effective or explicit form of the abc conjecture yields a complete proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
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A proof of the abc conjecture would yield new proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem and Catalan's Conjecture.
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