The Collatz orbit conjecture

Let

f(n)={3n+12,if n is odd,n2,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.

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Primary source

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

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