Increasing-decreasing patterns in the iteration of an arithmetic function

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-65064-2_18MaRDI QIDQ6944949zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Melvyn B. Nathanson

Publication date 11 August 2025

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65064-2_18

zbMATH Keywords

Syracuse functionincreasing-decreasing pattern

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Recurrences (11B37) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44)

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