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| ==Introduction==
| | A collection of considerations regarding the '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture Collatz conjecture]'''. |
| '''Collatz sequences''' (also called ''trajectories'') are sequences of integer numbers > 0. For any start value > 0 the elements of the sequence are constructed with two simple rules:
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| # Even numbers are halved.
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| # Odd numbers are multiplied by 3 and then incremented by 1.
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| Since decades it is unknown whether the final cyle 4 - 2 - 1 is always reached for all start values. This problem is the '''Collatz conjecture''', for which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture english Wikipedia] states:
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| : It is also known as the 3n + 1 conjecture, the Ulam conjecture (after Stanisław Ulam), Kakutani's problem (after Shizuo Kakutani), the Thwaites conjecture (after Sir Bryan Thwaites), Hasse's algorithm (after Helmut Hasse), or the Syracuse problem; the sequence of numbers involved is referred to as the hailstone sequence or hailstone numbers (because the values are usually subject to multiple descents and ascents like hailstones in a cloud), or as wondrous numbers.
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| Straightforward visualizations of Collatz sequences show no obvious structure. The sequences for the first dozen of start values are rather short, but the sequence for 27 suddenly has 112 elements.
| | It is splitted into the following parts: |
| ===References===
| | * [[OEIS/3x%2B1_Intro]] |
| * Jeffry C. Lagarias, Ed.: ''The Ultimate Challenge: The 3x+1 Problem'', Amer. Math. Soc., 2010, ISBN 978-8218-4940-8. [http://www.ams.org/bookpages/mbk-78 MBK78]
| | * [[OEIS/3x%2B1_Segments]] |
| * OEIS A07165: [http://oeis.org/A070165/a070165.txt File of first 10K Collatz sequences], ascending start values, with lengths
| | * [[OEIS/3x%2B1_Connectivity]] |
| * Manfred Trümper: ''The Collatz Problem in the Light of an Infinite Free Semigroup''. Chinese Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 2014, [http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/756917 Article ID 756917], 21 p. | | * [[OEIS/3x%2B1_Levels]] |
| ==Collatz Graph==
| | * [[OEIS/Attaching segments]] |
| When all Collatz sequences are read backwards, they form the '''Collatz graph''' starting with 1, 2, 4, 8 ... . At each node m > 4 in the graph, the path from the root (4) can be continued
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| * always to m * 2, and
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| * to (m - 1) / 3 if m ≡ 1 mod 3.
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| The Collatz conjecture claims that the graphs contains all numbers, and that - except for the trivial, leading cycle 1 - 2 - 4 - 1 - 2 - 4 ... - it has the form of a tree (without cycles). We will not consider the trivial cycle, and we start the graph with node 4, the '''root'''.
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| Moreover, another trivial type of path starts when m ≡ 0 mod 3. We call such a path a ''sprout'', and it contains duplications only. A sprout must be added to the graph for any node divisible by 3, therefore we will not consider them for the moment.
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| ===Graph Operations===
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| Following [http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/756917 Trümper], we use abbreviations for the elementary operations which transform a node (element, number) in the Collatz graph according to the following table (T1):
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| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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| !Name !! Mnemonic !! Distance to root !! Mapping !! Condition
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| | d || down || -1 || m ↦ m / 2 || m ≡ 0 mod 2
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| |-
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| | u || up || -1 || m ↦ 3 * m + 1 || (m ≡ 1 mod 2)
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| |-
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| | s := ud || spike || -2 || m ↦ (3 * m + 1) / 2) || m ≡ 1 mod 2
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| |-
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| | δ || divide || +1 || m ↦ (m - 1) / 3 || m ≡ 1 mod 3
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| |-
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| | µ || multiply || +1 || m ↦ m * 2 || (none)
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| |-
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| | σ := δµ|| squeeze || +2 || m ↦ ((m - 1) / 3) * 2 || m ≡ 1 mod 3
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| |}
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| We will mainly be interested in the reverse mappings (denoted with greek letters) which move away from the root of the graph.
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| ===3-by-2 Replacement===
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| The σ operation, applied to numbers of the form 6 * m - 2, has an interesting property:
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| (6 * (3 * n) - 2) σ = 4 * 3 * n - 2 = 6 * (2 * n) - 2
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| In other words, as long as m contains a factor 3, the σ operation maintains the form 6 * x - 2, and it replaces the factor 3 by 2 (it "squeezes" a 3 into a 2). In the opposite direction, the s operation replaces a factor 2 in m by 3.
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| === Trivial paths===
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| There are two types of paths whose descriptions are very simple:
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| (n = 2<sup>k</sup>) ddd ... d 8 d 4 d 2 d 1 - powers of 2
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| (n ≡ 0 mod 3) uuu ... u (n * 2<sup>k</sup>) ... - multiples of 3
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| ===Kernels===
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| By the ''kernel'' of a number n = 6 * m - 2 we denote the "2-3-free" factor of m, that is the factor which remains when all powers of 2 and 3 have been removed from m.
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| * The kernel is not affected by σ and s operations.
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| -->
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| ===Motivation: Patterns in sequences with the same length===
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| A closer look at the Collatz sequences shows a lot of pairs of adjacent start values which have the same sequence length, for example (from [https://oeis.org/A070165 OEIS A070165]):
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| 142/104: 142 d 71 u 214 d 107 u 322 d 161 u 484 d 242 d 121 u 364 ] 182, 91, ... 4, 2, 1
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| 143/104: 143 u 430 d 215 u 646 d 323 u 970 d 485 u 1456 d 728 d 364 ] 182, 91, ... 4, 2, 1
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| +1 *6+4 +1 *6+4 +1 *6+4 +1 *6+4 *6+2 +0 +0 ...
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| The third line tells how the second line could be computed from the first.
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| Walking from right to left, the step pattern is:
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| δ µ µ δ µ δ µ δ µ
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| µ µ δ µ δ µ δ µ δ
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| The alternating pattern of operations can be continued to the left with 4 additional pairs of steps:
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| q? u [ 62 d 31 u 94 d 47 u 142 d ...
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| 126 d [ 63 u 190 d 95 u 286 d 143 u ...
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| +1 *6+4 +1 *6+4 +1
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| The pattern stops here since there is no number q such that q * 3 + 1 = 62.
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| ==Segment Construction==
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| These patterns lead us to the construction of special subsets of paths in the Collatz graph which we call ''segments''. They lead away from the root, and they always start with a node m ≡ -2 mod 6. Then they split and follow two subpaths in a prescribed sequence of operations. The segment construction process is stopped when the next node in one of the two subpaths becomes divisible by 3, resp. when a δ operation is no more possible. We assemble the segments as rows of an infinite array <nowiki>C[i,j]</nowiki>, the so-called ''segment directory''.
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| : Informally, and in the two examples above, we consider the terms betweeen the square brackets. For the moment, we only take those which are which are ≡ 4 mod 6 (for "compressed" segments, below there are also "detailed" segments where we take all). We start at the right and with the lower line, and we interleave the terms ≡ 4 mod 6 of the two lines to get a segment.
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| The columns in one row i of the array C are constructed as described in the following table (T2):
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| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| !Column j !! Operation !! Formula !! Condition !! Sequence
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| | 1 || || 6 * i - 2 || || 4, 10, 16, 22, 28, ...
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| | 2 || <nowiki>C[i,1]</nowiki> µµ || 24 * (i - 1) + 16 || || 16, 40, 64, 88, 112, ...
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| |-
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| | 3 || <nowiki>C[i,1]</nowiki> δµµ || 24 * (i - 1) / 3 + 4 || i ≡ 1 mod 3 || 4, 28, 52, 76, 100, ...
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| | 4 || <nowiki>C[i,2]</nowiki> σ || 48 * (i - 1) / 3 + 10 || i ≡ 1 mod 3 || 10, 58, 106, 134, ...
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| | 5 || <nowiki>C[i,3]</nowiki> σ || 48 * (i - 7) / 9 + 34 || i ≡ 7 mod 9 || 34, 82, 130, 178, ...
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| |-
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| | 6 || <nowiki>C[i,2]</nowiki> σσ || 96 * (i - 7) / 9 + 70 || i ≡ 7 mod 9 || 70, 166, 262, 358, ...
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| |-
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| | 7 || <nowiki>C[i,3]</nowiki> σσ || 96 * (i - 7) / 27 + 22 || i ≡ 7 mod 27 || 22, 118, 214, 310, ...
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| |-
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| | 8 || <nowiki>C[i,2]</nowiki> σσσ || 192 * (i - 7) / 27 + 46 || i ≡ 7 mod 27 || 46, 238, 430, 622, ...
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| | 9 || <nowiki>C[i,3]</nowiki> σσσ || 192 * (i - 61) / 81 + 142|| i ≡ 61 mod 81 || 142, 334, ...
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| |-
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| | ... || ... || ... || ... || ...
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| |-
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| |}
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| The first column(s) <nowiki>C[i,1]</nowiki> will be denoted as the '''left side''' of the segment (or of the whole directory), while the columns <nowiki>C[i,j], j > 1</nowiki> will be the '''right part'''. The first few lines of the segment directory are the following:
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| <table style="border-collapse: collapse; ">
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| <tr>
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| <td style="text-align:center"> </td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">1</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">2</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">3</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">4</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">5</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">6</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">7</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">8</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">9</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">10</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">11</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">...</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">2*j</td>
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| <td style="text-align:center">2*j+1</td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > i </td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >6*i‑2</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >µµ</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >δµµ</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >µµσ</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >δµµσ</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >µµσσ</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >δµµσσ</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >µµσ<sup>3</sup></td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >δµµσ<sup>3</sup></td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >µµσ<sup>4</sup></td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >δµµσ<sup>4</sup></td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >...</td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >µµσ<sup>j-1</sup></td>
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| <td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" >δµµσ<sup>j-1</sup></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr><td> 1 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 4 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 16 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.0:0" id="4" class="d4 bor seg"> 4 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.1:0" id="10" class="d4 bor seg"> 10 </td></tr>
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| <tr><td> 2 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 10 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 40 </td></tr>
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| <tr><td> 3 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 16 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 64 </td></tr>
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| <tr><td> 4 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 22 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 88 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="5.0:0" id="28" class="d4 bor seg"> 28 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="5.1:0" id="58" class="d4 bor seg"> 58 </td></tr>
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| <tr><td> 5 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 28 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 112 </td></tr>
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| <tr><td> 6 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 34 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 136 </td></tr>
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| <tr><td> 7 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 40 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" > 160 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.0:2" id="52" class="d4 bor seg"> 52 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.1:2" id="106" class="d4 bor seg"> 106 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.1:1" id="34" class="d4 bor seg"> 34 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.2:1" id="70" class="d4 bor seg"> 70 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.2:0" id="22" class="d4 bor seg"> 22 </td><td style="border:1px solid gray;text-align:right" title="1.3:0" id="46" class="d4 bor seg"> 46 </td></tr>
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| </table>
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| There is a more elaborated '''[http://www.teherba.org/fasces/oeis/collatz/comp.html segment directory] with 5000 rows'''.
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| ===Properties of the segment directory===
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| We make a number of claims for segments:
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| * (C1) All nodes in the segment directory are of the form 6 * n - 2.
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| : This follows from the formula for columns <nowiki>C[i,1..3]</nowiki>, and for any higher column numbers from the 3-by-2 replacement property of the σ operation.
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| * (C2) All segments have a finite length. | |
| : At some point the σ operations will have replaced all factors 3 by 2.
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| * (C3) All nodes in the right part of a segment have the form 6 * (3<sup>n</sup> * 2<sup>m</sup> * f) - 2 with the same "3-2-free" factor f.
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| : This follows from the operations for columns <nowiki>C[i,1..3]</nowiki>, and from the fact that the σ operation maintains this property.
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| * (C4) All nodes in the right part of a particular segment are
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| ** different among themselves, and
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| ** different from the left side of that segment (except for the first segment for the root 4).
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| : For <nowiki>C[i,1..2]</nowiki> we see that the values modulo 24 are different. For the remaining columns, we see that the exponents of the factors 2 and 3 are different. They are shifted by the σ operations, but they alternate, for example (in the segment with left part 40):
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| 160 = 6 * (3<sup>3</sup> * 2<sup>0</sup> * 1) - 2
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| 52 = 6 * (3<sup>2</sup> * 2<sup>0</sup> * 1) - 2
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| 106 = 6 * (3<sup>2</sup> * 2<sup>1</sup> * 1) - 2
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| 34 = 6 * (3<sup>1</sup> * 2<sup>1</sup> * 1) - 2
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| 70 = 6 * (3<sup>1</sup> * 2<sup>2</sup> * 1) - 2
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| 22 = 6 * (3<sup>0</sup> * 2<sup>2</sup> * 1) - 2
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| 46 = 6 * (3<sup>0</sup> * 2<sup>3</sup> * 1) - 2
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| * (C5) There is no cycle in a segment (except for the first segment for the root 4).
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| ===Segment Lengths===
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| The segment directory is obviously very structured. The lengths of the compressed segments follow the pattern
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| 4 2 2 4 2 2 L<sub>1</sub> 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 2 L<sub>2</sub> 2 2 4 2 2 ...
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| with two ''fixed lengths'' 2 and 4 and some ''variable lengths'' L<sub>1</sub>, L<sub>2</sub> ... > 4. For the left parts 4, 40, 364, 3280, 29524 ([http://oeis.org/A191681 OEIS A191681]), the segment lengths have high values 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 which did not occur before. Those left parts are (9<sup>n+1</sup> - 1) / 2, or 4 * Sum(9<sup>i</sup>, i = 0..n).
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| ===Coverage of the Right Part===
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| We now examine the modular conditions which result from the segment construction table in order to find out how the numbers of the form 6 * n - 2 are covered by the right part of the segment directory, as shown in the following table (T3):
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| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| !Columns j !! Covered !! Remaining
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| | 2-3 || 4, 16 mod 24 || 10, 22, 34, 46 mod 48
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| | 3-4 || 10, 34 mod 48 || 22, 46, 70, 94 mod 96
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| | 5-6 || 70, 22 mod 96 || 46, 94, 142, 190 mod 192
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| | 7-8 || 46, 142 mod 192 || 94, 190, 286, 382 mod 384
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| |-
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| | ... || ... || ...
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| |}
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| We can always exclude the first and the third element remaining so far by looking in the next two columns of segments with sufficient length.
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| * (C6) There is no limit on the length of a segment.
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| : We only need to take a segment which, in its right part, has a factor of 3 with a sufficiently high power, and the σ operations will stretch out the segment accordingly.
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| Therefore we can continue the modulus table above indefinitely, which leads us to the claim:
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| * (C7) '''All numbers of the form 6 * n - 2 occur exactly once''' in the right part of the segment directory, and once as a left side. There is a bijective mapping between the left sides and the elements of the right parts.
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| : The sequences defined by the columns in the right part all have different modulus conditions. Therefore they are all disjoint.
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| ==Forest directory==
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| We construct a ''forest directory'' F which initially is a copy of the segment directory C. F lists all the small trees with two branches which are represented by the right parts in the segment directory. These trees are ''labelled'' by the left sides.
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| Then we start a ''gedankenexperiment'' analogous to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel Hilbert's hotel]. We consider simultaneously all rows i > 1 (omitting the root segment) in F which fulfill some modularity condition (the ''source'' row in F), and we ''attach'' (identify, connect) them to their unique occurrence in the right part of F (''target'' row and column).
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| * (C8) The attachment process does not create any new cycle (in addition to the one in the root segment).
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| : Let tree t1 with label n1 and right part R1 be attached to node n1 in the right part R2 of the unique tree t2 which is labelled by n2. t1 and t2 are disjoint trees, therefore the result of such a single attachment step is a tree again (t2', still labelled by n2).
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| : A technical implementation of the process (which is impossible for infinite sets) would perhaps replace the target node by a pointer to the source tree.
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| We ''sieve'' the trees in F: Whenever we attach t1 to n1 in t2, we remove the row for n1 resp. t1 in F. The attachment rules are shown in the following table (T4):
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| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| !Source Row i !! Target Row !! Target Column !! Remaining Rows !! Fraction
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| |i ≡ 3 mod 4 ||((i - 3) / 4) * 3<sup>0</sup> + 1 || 2||i ≡ 0, 1, 2 mod 4 ||3/4
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| |i ≡ 1 mod 4 ||((i - 1) / 4) * 3<sup>1</sup> + 1 || 3||i ≡ 0, 2, 4, 6 mod 8 ||1/2
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| |i ≡ 2 mod 8 ||((i - 2) / 8) * 3<sup>1</sup> + 1 || 4||i ≡ 0, 4, 6 mod 8 ||3/8
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| |i ≡ 6 mod 8 ||((i - 6) / 8) * 3<sup>2</sup> + 7 || 5||i ≡ 0, 4, 8, 12 mod 16 ||1/4
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| |i ≡ 12 mod 16||((i - 12) / 16) * 3<sup>2</sup> + 7 || 6||i ≡ 0, 4, 8 mod 16 ||3/16
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| |i ≡ 4 mod 16||((i - 4) / 16) * 3<sup>3</sup> + 7 || 7||i ≡ 0, 8, 16, 24 mod 32 ||1/8
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| |i ≡ 8 mod 32||((i - 8) / 32) * 3<sup>3</sup> + 7 || 8||i ≡ 0, 16, 24 mod 32 ||3/32
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| |i ≡ 24 mod 32||((i - 24) / 32) * 3<sup>4</sup> + 61|| 9||i ≡ 0, 16, 32, 48 mod 64||1/16
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| |i ≡ 48 mod 64||((i - 48) / 64) * 3<sup>4</sup> + 61||10||i ≡ 0, 16, 32 mod 64 ||3/64
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| |i ≡ 16 mod 64||((i - 16) / 64) * 3<sup>5</sup> + 61||11||i ≡ 0, 32, 64, 96 mod 128 ||1/32
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| | ... || ... || ... || ... || ...
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| |-
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| |}
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| It should be obvious how the next rows of this table should be filled: The residues of 2<sup>k</sup> in the first column are 3 * 2<sup>k-2</sup>, 1 * 2<sup>k-2</sup> in an alternating sequence. The additive constants in the second column are the indexes of the variable length segments with left parts (4), 40, 364, 3280, 29524 ([http://oeis.org/A191681 OEIS A191681]) mentioned above. They are repeated 4 times since the corresponding lengths "jump" by 4.
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| It should be noted that it does not matter in which order the single attachment steps are performed.
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| ===Tree connectivity===
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| * (C9) The tree of any source row with arbitrarily large left side n1 will eventually be be attached to another tree which contains n1 in its node set.
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| : Similiar to the arguments for coverage of segments, we have to apply the rules from table T4 one after the other up to a sufficiently high row (corresponding to a sufficiently long variable segment).
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| * (C9a) In the end, all subtrees will be attached to the root segment.
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| : Suppose there is a set U of subtrees left which are not connected to the root segment. We consider the subtree t in U with the smallest label. We know that it should have been attached - to where? Either to the root segment, or to another tree in U. ''Is this already a contradiction?''
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| :If not, then in both cases the number of trees is reduced by 1. We repeat the argument until there is only one subtree t left in U. The label of t is not contained in t's node set, so it must be contained in the node set of the tree already attached to the root segment, and that is the node where t must also be attached.
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| : And if U is infinite? Then the two trees attached to the root segment would have a finite number of nodes. Then they have leaves which have no tree attached to them. But by T4 we could always determine the subtree which should have been attached, so we have a contradiction.
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| We denote the final tree resulting from the sieving process by '''compressed tree'''.
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| ==The Collatz Tree==
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| * (C10) The compressed tree is a subgraph of the Collatz graph.
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| : The edges of the compressed tree carry combined operations µµ, δµµ and σ = δµ.
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| So far, numbers of the form x ≡ 0, 1, 2, 3, 5 mod 6 are missing from the compressed tree.
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| We insert intermediate nodes into the compressed tree by applying operations on the left parts of the segments as shown in the following table (T5):
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| {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| ! Operation !! Condition !! Resulting Nodes !! Remaining Nodes
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| |δ || || 2 * i - 1 || i ≡ 0, 2, 6, 8 mod 12
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| |µ || || 12 * i - 4 || i ≡ 0, 2, 6 mod 12
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| |δµ || i ≡ 1, 2 mod 3 || 4 * i - 2 || i ≡ 0, 12 mod 24
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| |δµµ || i ≡ 2 mod 3 || 8 * i - 4 || i ≡ 0 mod 24
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| |δµµµ || i ≡ 2 mod 3 || 16 * i - 8 || (none)
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| |}
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| The first three rows in T5 care for the intermediate nodes at the beginning of the segment construction with columns 1, 2, 3. Rows 4 and 5 generate the sprouts (starting at multiples of 3) which are not contained in the segment directory.
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| We call such a construction a ''detailed segment'' (in contrast to the ''compressed segments'' described above).
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| :: A '''[http://www.teherba.org/fasces/oeis/collatz/rails.html detailed segment directory]''' can be created by the same [https://github.com/gfis/fasces/blob/master/oeis/collatz/collatz_rails.pl Perl program]. In that directory, the two subpaths of a segment are shown in two lines. Only the highlighted nodes are unique.
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| * (C11) The connectivity of the compressed tree remains unaffected by the insertions.
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| * (C12) With the insertions of T5, the compressed tree covers the whole Collatz graph.
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| * (C13) '''The Collatz graph is a tree''' (except for the trivial cycle 4-2-1).
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