Generalized Collatz Maps with Almost Bounded Orbits

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Authors Felipe Gonçalves, Rachel Greenfeld, Jose Beltrán Jiménez

Publication date 11 November 2021

Abstract: If dividing by $p$ is a mistake, multiply by $q$ and translate, and so you'll live to iterate. We show that if we define a Collatz-like map in this form then, under suitable conditions on $p$ and $q$, almost all orbits of this map attain almost bounded values. This generalizes a recent breakthrough result of Tao for the original Collatz map (i.e., $p=2$ and $q=3$). In other words, given an arbitrary growth function $Nmapstof(N)$ we show that almost every orbit of such map with input $N$ eventually attains a value smaller than $f(N)$.

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