A randomized version of the Collatz \(3x + 1\) problem

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2015.10.017zbMath1329.60252arXiv1503.03658OpenAlexW2964294204MaRDI QIDQ899629

Vassilis G. Papanicolaou, Aristides V. Doumas

Publication date: 30 December 2015

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03658

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainCollatz \(3x + 1\) problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10)

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