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Why there are no mappings to infinity under the Collatz map (and similar)

M. J. Wensink

Following up on earlier work, I suggest why there are no mappings to infinity under the Collatz conjecture, nor under other mappings of the generalization $3 n + p$ , where $p$ is odd.

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The 3n+1 problem: a partition of interest

Maarten J. Wensink

A mapping conjugate to the Collatz mapping seems to imply that $N = {1, 2, 3, \dots}$ is partitioned in a trivial loop ${1}$ and `strings' that are ordered subsets of $\{\N \setmi…