Iteration Steps of 3x+1 Problem
General Mathematics
2025-07-14 v2
Abstract
On the 3x+1 problem, given a positive integer , let , , be the total iteration steps, the odd iteration steps and the even iteration steps when iterates to 1(except 1) respectively. Trivially, we have . In this paper, we propose a so-called weak residue conjecture(i.e., ). We prove that if 3x+1 conjecture is true and the weak residue conjecture is true, there exist non-trivial relationships among , , , i.e., (it implies that we can calculate , directly by only, of course given ), and 5 more similar equations are derived simultaneously.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.23070,
title = {Iteration Steps of 3x+1 Problem},
author = {Youchun Luo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23070},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
16 pages, add 1 important reference, rewrite 3 formulas of Theorem 3