Consecutive integers and the Collatz conjecture

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Authors Marcus Elia, A. Beeson

Publication date 15 January 2016

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09141, http://www.emis.de/journals/INTEGERS/papers/p54/p54.Abstract.html

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zbMATH Keywords

\(3x+1\)-problemCollatz functionCollatz problemheightiterationspairs of consecutive integersSyracuse problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Recurrences (11B37) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Calculation of integer sequences (11Y55)

Abstract: Pairs of consecutive integers have the same height in the Collatz problem with surprising frequency. Garner gave a conjectural family of conditions for exactly when this occurs. Our main result is an infinite family of counterexamples to Garner's conjecture.

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