Matthews' conjectures for relatively prime generalized Collatz maps
Matthews' conjectures for relatively prime generalized Collatz maps
Let , let be nonzero integers, and choose with . Define by
Call the map relatively prime when for every . Matthews' conjectures. In the relatively prime case: (I) every trajectory is eventually periodic if ; (II) if , the union of divergent orbit classes has density in ; (III) regardless of these inequalities, the map has a finite, nonzero number of cycles; and (IV) every point in a divergent orbit class has iterates uniformly distributed modulo for every , meaning
These are stated as a package of conjectures about the generalized map and remain open in the source.
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Primary source
Maxwell Charles Siegel, “(p,q)-adic Analysis and the Collatz Conjecture”, arXiv:2412.02902 (2024).
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