Skip to main content

All Questions

4 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
8 votes
0 answers
1k views

Is the Collatz conjecture known to be true for interesting unbounded classes of numbers?

The Collatz or the $3n+1$ conjecture is open. Is there a specific polynomial $f(x)\in\mathbb Z[x]$ whose range is unbounded for which every integer of form $|f(m)|$ at $m\in\mathbb Z$ satisfies $3n+1$...
Turbo's user avatar
  • 13.9k
1 vote
0 answers
73 views

On a type of equations that involve certain multiplicative functions and polynomials, in relation to their number of solutions

Past weekend I was interested in the sequence A058891 from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, from this, inspired by the equation due to Benoit Cloitre (2002) that shows the comments, I ...
user142929's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
62 views

Linear recurrences in coefficients of powers of quotients of polynomial rings

It is known that linear recurrences with constant coefficients can be computed via powers in $\mathbb{Z}[x]/f(x)$. We believe that this generalizes to quotients of multivariate polynomial rings. Let $...
joro's user avatar
  • 25.4k
0 votes
0 answers
86 views

Polynomials of integer coefficients that evaluated at Mersenne or Fermat numbers produce square-free integers

Mersenne numbers $M_n=2^n-1$ and Fermat numbers $F_n=2^{2^n}+1$ draw the attention of professional mathematicians to get prime constellations or statements related to primality tests for these ...
user142929's user avatar