Lagarias's periodicity conjecture for the 2-adic Collatz map
Lagarias's periodicity conjecture for the 2-adic Collatz map
Let be the ring of -adic integers, let be given by
where at each iterate is the residue modulo of the current element. An element of is eventually -periodic if some iterate of it is periodic under . Lagarias's periodicity conjecture. The eventually -periodic elements of are exactly the elements of . It is known that all eventually -periodic elements are rational, while the converse is the conjecture attributed to Lagarias. The conjecture remains open.
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Primary source
Angelot Behajaina and Elad Paran, “The Collatz map analogue in polynomial rings and in completions”, arXiv:2312.00390 (2024).
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