On the Distribution of the First Point of Coalescence for some Collatz Trajectories

Roy Burson

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On the Distribution of the First Point of Coalescence for some Collatz Trajectories

Roy Burson

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This paper is a numerical evaluation of some trajectories of the Collatz function. Specifically, I assess the coalescence points of each integer $n\equiv 0 (\bmod{2})$ and $n\equiv 2(\bmod{3})$ through a sophisticated algorithm that has been developed to test on any different modulus classes. The data discovered illustrate that the distribution of the first point of coalescence is closely related to the solutions of some exponential diophantine equation. Afterwards, I show that the first point of coalescence of the integers $n$ and $3n+2$ appear to tend to an expected value of $4/5n$. When the algorithm was pushed to its peak estimation it has been discovered that the expected value begins to deviate from the initial estimation of $4/5n$. The first point of coalescence of the integers $n$ and $3n+2$ appear eradicate from a "step by step" point of view but from a topological point of view seem to be localized around the diophantine solution of some particular functions.

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Roy Burson. 2020-05-18. On the Distribution of the First Point of Coalescence for some Collatz Trajectories. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09456

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