The cycle-vertex conjecture for the Loosened Collatz Graph

Let N1\mathbb{N}_1 denote the positive integers, and let the Loosened Collatz Graph be the graph whose vertices and cycles are defined by the Loosened Collatz Function. Cycle-vertex conjecture. For all n0 (mod 3)N1n \neq 0 \text{ (mod 3)} \in \mathbb{N}_1, nn is a vertex of a cycle. This conjecture asserts that every positive integer not divisible by 33 lies on a cycle in the graph; the source gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

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Q Le and Edward Smith, “Observations on cycles in a variant of the Collatz Graph”, arXiv:2109.01180 (2023).

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