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In this article we give a proof of Serre’s conjecture for the case of odd level and arbitrary weight. Our proof does not use any modularity lifting theorem in characteristic 2 (moreover, we will not consider at all characteristic 2 representations at any step of our proof). The key tool in the proof is a very general modularity lifting result of Kisin, which is combined with the methods and results of previous articles on Serre’s conjecture by Khare, Wintenberger, and the author, and modularity results of Schoof for abelian varieties of small conductor. Assuming GRH, infinitely many cases of even level will also be proved.
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The results in this article were obtained in the period March–May 2006.