The Reduced 5k + 1(3)/4 Collatz-Type Domain with Four Observed Attractors
This work studies a residue-dependent reduced Collatz-type map on the positive odd integers, referred to as the 5k + 1(3)/4 domain. For an odd state x, the affine correction is chosen from {1, 3} so that the numerator is divisible by at least 4, after which all powers of two are removed. The map exhibits four directly verified periodic attractors: the fixed point {1} and the three cycles {31, 39, 49}, {37, 47, 59}, and {61, 77, 97}. An exhaustive C computation using unsigned 128-bit arithmetic and four POSIX threads tested all 5,000,000,000 positive odd starting values below 10^10. Every tested orbit entered one of the four observed attractors, with zero unresolved cases. The work also presents basin statistics, stopping-time and peak records, an exact Diophantine identity for periodic orbits, inverse branches, the two-adic valuation law, and a probabilistic contraction analysis. These algebraic and computational results motivate a Four-Attractor Conjecture for the positive odd integers. The conjecture is explicitly distinguished from the exhaustive finite verification and is not claimed as a proof of global convergence. The accompanying computational archive contains source code, numerical results, record data, reproducibility instructions, and checksums for independent verification.
Authors
- Banazadeh Farhad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7023-0298)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22726452
- Primary Topic
- Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00