Nonexistence of large paradoxical Collatz sequences
Nonexistence of large paradoxical Collatz sequences
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Let be the Collatz map. A sequence is paradoxical when and . Nonexistence conjecture for large paradoxical sequences. There is no paradoxical sequence for whose first term is greater than . The conjecture is motivated by heuristic extrapolation of computational bounds; the supplied text does not establish it.
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Olivier Rozier and Claude Terracol, “Paradoxical behavior in Collatz sequences”, arXiv:2502.00948 (2026).
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