The Collatz orbit conjecture

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Let

f(n)={3n+12,if n is odd,fracn2,if n is even.f(n)=\begin{cases}\frac{3n+1}{2},&\text{if }n\text{ is odd},\\frac{n}{2},&\text{if }n\text{ is even.}\end{cases}

Let O1={1,2}{\cal O}_1=\{1,2\}. An eventual finite orbit is a finite orbit in which the iterates of an initial integer eventually remain. Collatz orbit conjecture. O1{\cal O}_1 is the only eventual finite orbit that the Collatz function admits.

This is the uniqueness-of-the-eventual-orbit formulation of the Collatz conjecture. The source presents it as the goal of improving results concerning uniqueness, but provides no resolution of the claim.

References

Primary source

Louis Kauffman and Pedro Lopes, “On the orbits associated with the Collatz conjecture”, arXiv:2005.13670 (2021).

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