Iteration of functions and contractibility of acyclic 2-complexes

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT6512110zbMATH Open1482.57021arXiv1910.00931MaRDI QIDQ2232007FDOQ2232007

Ian J. Leary

Publication date: 1 October 2021

Published in: Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that there can be no algorithm to decide whether infinite recursively described acyclic aspherical 2-complexes are contractible. We construct such a complex that is contractible if and only if the Collatz conjecture holds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00931

zbMATH Keywords

iterationcontractibility2-complexes\(3x+1\) problemCollatz function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Undecidability and degrees of sets of sentences (03D35)

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