The Collatz Problem generalized to 3x+k

Publication date 20 January 2021

Abstract: The Collatz problem with

3 x + k

is revisited. Positive and negative limit cycles are given up to k=9997 starting with

x_{0} = - 2 c d o t 1 0^{7} ... + 2 c d o t 1 0^{7}

. A simple relation between the probability distribution for the Syracuse iterates for various k (not divisible by 2 and 3) is obtained. From this it follows that the oscillation considered by Tao 2019 ( arXiv:1909.03562v2 ) does not depend on k. Thus this piece of the proof of his theorem 1.3 "Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values" holds for all k not divisible by 2 and 3.

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