A note on the $3x+1$ conjecture
General Mathematics
2021-11-24 v3
Abstract
Let be a map from the set of positive integers into itself defined as follows: Let be a positive integer. If is odd, then , and if is even, then . The conjecture, also called the Collatz conjecture, states: For any positive integer there exists another positive integer such that the -iterate of under the map is equal to , i.e. . We provide some information related with this conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.12228,
title = {A note on the $3x+1$ conjecture},
author = {J. Llibre and C. Valls},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12228},
year = {2021}
}