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Let $C$ be the Collatz map on the natural numbers, defined by: $$C(n) := \begin{cases} n/2 & \text{if} \;n \;\text{even} \\ (3n+1)/2 & \text{if} \;n \;\text{odd} \end{cases}$$ The inverse of $C$ is …

This post is the analogous of that one (about $\sqrt{2}$) but with a much stronger expectation here. We observed, and then this comment of Lucia proved, that for $\phi$ the golden ratio, if $n$ a …

Consider the function $f$ on the prime numbers defined by $$ f(p):= \text{ the greatest prime factor of } 2p+1.$$ The iteration of $f$ from any prime $p<10^8$ converges to the cycle $$(3,7,5,11,23,47, …

This post makes a focus on a very specific part of that long post. Consider the following map: $$f: n \mapsto \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \left \lfloor{n/\sqrt{2}} \right \rfloor & \text{ …

$\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}$Let $H$ be a Hilbert space, and $X \in B(H)$ a proper isometry (i.e. $X^{\star}X = \id$ and $XX^{\star} \neq \id$). Coburn's theorem states that ${\rm C}^{\star}(X)$, th …

The usual Collatz map is $C:n \mapsto n/2$ if $n$ even, $(3n+1)/2$ if $n$ odd. Let $f^{\circ (r+1)}:=f \circ f^{\circ r}$. We suspect that for every fixed $n>0$, the sequence $C^{\circ r}(n)$ never d …