The Sophie Germain prime distribution conjecture for backward Collatz translates

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Let ff be a Collatz function and let {fs(b)}s=1∞\{f^{s}(b)\}_{s=1}^{\infty} be the corresponding Collatz process. A process is full in the sense used by the source, and define

M={Inf{f−s(b)}−1}s=1∞.\mathcal{M}=\{\mathrm{Inf}\{f^{-s}(b)\}-1\}_{s=1}^{\infty}.

Let ρ\rho be the set of all primes. The backward-Collatz prime-density conjecture. If the process is full, then M\mathcal{M} contains infinitely consecutive primes and

lim⁡s⟶∞#(M∩ρ)#M=1.\lim_{s\longrightarrow\infty}\frac{\#(\mathcal{M}\cap\rho)}{\#\mathcal{M}}=1.

The paper explicitly relates this conjecture to the unresolved distribution problem for Sophie Germain primes.

References

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Theophilus Agama, “The theory of the Collatz process and the method of dynamical balls”, arXiv:1910.13828 (2026).

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