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It is well known that the Collatz Conjecture can be reinterpreted as the Collatz Graph with root vertex 1, asking whether all positive integers are within the tree generated. It is further known that any cycle in the Collatz Graph can be…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Q Le , Edward Smith

In this paper, we discuss the well known 3x+1 conjecture in form of the accelerated Collatz function T defined on the positive odd integers. We present a sequence of quotient spaces and an invertible map that are intrinsically related to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Peter Hellekalek

The generalized Petersen graph $G(n, k)$ is a cubic graph with vertex set $V(G(n, k)) = \{v_i\}_{0 \leq i < n} \cup \{w_i\}_{0 \leq i < n}$ and edge set $E(G(n, k)) = \{v_i v_{i+1}\}_{0 \leq i < n} \cup \{w_i w_{i+k}\}_{0 \leq i < n} \cup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Jan Kristian Haugland

Cyclic codes over finite fields are widely implemented in data storage systems, communication systems, and consumer electronics, as they have very efficient encoding and decoding algorithms. They are also important in theory, as they are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cunsheng Ding

We determine the conditions for the existence or not of cycles for several families of generalized 3x + 1 mappings and develop a method to find them.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Robert Tremblay

The present work focuses on the study of the renowned Collatz conjecture, also known as the $3x +1$ problem. The distinguished analysis approach lies on the dynamics of an iterative map in binary form. A new estimation of the enlargement of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Pablo Castañeda

A Universal Cycle for t-multisets of [n]={1,...,n} is a cyclic sequence of $\binom{n+t-1}{t}$ integers from [n] with the property that each t-multiset of [n] appears exactly once consecutively in the sequence. For such a sequence to exist…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Glenn Hurlbert , Tobias Johnson , Joshua Zahl

I want to show one possibility to proof the Collatz conjecture, also called 3n+1 conjecture, for any natural number N. For this, I limit my analysis on the direct odd follower of every natural odd number and show the connections between the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Carolin Zöbelein

This paper is a numerical evaluation of some trajectories of the Collatz function. Specifically, I assess the coalescence points of each integer $n\equiv 0 (\bmod{2})$ and $n\equiv 2(\bmod{3})$ through a sophisticated algorithm that has…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Roy Burson

Set out here are some fundamental theories that may be regarded as newly discovered metamathematics of the odd integers in relation to the Collatz conjecture (also called the 3x+1 problem). Originally motivated by the requirement to invent…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Michael A. Idowu

Professor Cadogan at the University of the West Indies identified special starting points that yield long subsequences where the normalization constant, k, is always one. I studied these special sequences and found an implicit mixed integer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-08-23 Thomas W. Lynch

The construction of complementary sets (CSs) of sequences with different set size and sequence length become important due to its practical application for OFDM systems. Most of the constructions of CSs, based on generalized Boolean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Gaoxiang Wang , Avik Ranjan Adhikary , Zhengchun Zhou , Yang Yang

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is one of the most used ab initio theoretical frameworks in materials science. It derives the ground state properties of a multi-atomic ensemble directly from the computation of its one-particle density \nr…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Edoardo Di Napoli , Stefan Blügel , Paolo Bientinesi

A generalization of the Heisenberg algebra has been recently constructed. This generalized algebra has a characteristic function which depends on one of its generators. When this function is linear, $qJ_0+s$, it is possible to construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. I. Ribeiro-Silva , N. M. Oliveira-Neto

Motivated by a recent work of Tr\"umper we consider the general Collatz word (up-down pattern) and the sequences following this pattern. The recurrences for the first and last sequence entries are given, obtained from repeated application…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Wolfdieter Lang

We investigate transformer prediction of long Collatz steps, a complex arithmetic function that maps odd integers to their distant successors in the Collatz sequence ( $u_{n+1}=u_n/2$ if $u_n$ is even, $u_{n+1}=(3u_n+1)/2$ if $u_n$ is odd).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 François Charton , Ashvni Narayanan

The theory of generalized locally Toeplitz (GLT) sequences is a powerful apparatus for computing the asymptotic spectral distribution of square matrices $A_n$ arising from the discretization of differential problems. Indeed, as the mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Giovanni Barbarino , Carlo Garoni , Mariarosa Mazza , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

This paper gives a simple proof of the Wirsching-Goodwin representation of integers connected to 1 in the $3x+1$ problem (see \cite{Wirsching} and \cite{Goodwin}). This representation permits to compute all the ascending Collatz sequences…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Jean-Jacques Daudin , Laurent Pierre

In this work, we present and study Continuous Generative Neural Networks (CGNNs), namely, generative models in the continuous setting: the output of a CGNN belongs to an infinite-dimensional function space. The architecture is inspired by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-25 Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria , Silvia Sciutto

We study variants of the well-known Collatz graph, by considering the action of the 3n+1 function on congruence classes. For moduli equal to powers of 2, these graphs are shown to be isomorphic to binary De Bruijn graphs. Unlike the Collatz…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Thijs Laarhoven , Benne de Weger