Quantifying the degree of average contraction of Collatz orbits

DOI10.1007/S40574-017-0145-XzbMath1408.37016arXiv1612.07820OpenAlexW2563812577MaRDI QIDQ1630521

Timoteo Carletti, Duccio Fanelli

Publication date: 10 December 2018

Published in: Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07820

zbMATH Keywords

Markov processergodic dynamical systemsnumber theoryCollatz conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

Related Items (1)

Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values

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