On the nonexistence of nontrivial small cycles of the \(\mu\) function in \(3x+1\) conjecture

DOI10.1007/s11424-012-0280-5zbMath1291.11060OpenAlexW2024579677WikidataQ123227980 ScholiaQ123227980MaRDI QIDQ394408

Liping Ding, Dengguo Feng, Xiubin Fan, Zhangyi Wang

Publication date: 27 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-012-0280-5

zbMATH Keywords

periodic point3x+1 conjectureeventual periodlinear Diophantine equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Linear Diophantine equations (11D04)

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