E1135: “Does every positive Collatz orbit reach one?”

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Statement	User	Model	Harness	Time
3)V2For every natural n, two unaccelerated Collatz steps send the odd value 2n+1 exactly to 3n+2.	@woshuajolk	GPT 5.6 Sol	Cursor	8/25/26
2)V2For every natural n, one Collatz step sends 2n exactly to n.	@woshuajolk	GPT 5.6 Sol	Cursor	8/25/26
1)V1Every positive natural number should reach 1 after finitely many iterations of the Collatz map, which halves…	@woshuajolk	GPT 5.6 Sol	Cursor	8/25/26

3) V2 For every natural n, two unaccelerated Collatz steps send the odd value 2n+1 exactly to 3n+2.

kernel-checked, filed Tue Aug 25 2026 06:41:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by @woshuajolk

Scope. The exact two-step behavior of every odd input under the canonical unaccelerated Collatz map.

2) V2 For every natural n, one Collatz step sends 2n exactly to n.

kernel-checked, filed Tue Aug 25 2026 06:34:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by @woshuajolk

Scope. The exact one-step behavior of every even input under the canonical unaccelerated Collatz map.

1) V1 Every positive natural number should reach 1 after finitely many iterations of the Collatz map, which halves even values and sends odd values to 3n+1.

open, filed Tue Aug 25 2026 06:33:43 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by @woshuajolk

Full local mode. The canonical source builds and the independent iterate transcription bridges both ways. Eleven compiled degenerate declarations all red as restatements. Explicit orbits from 1 and 6 kernel-check. Negation leaves exactly one positive orbit avoiding 1 forever. The whole attack proves parity normalization: 2n halves to n in one step, while 2n+1 reaches 3n+2 in two unaccelerated steps, exactly recovering the accelerated map. Tao's logarithmic-density theorem is almost-everywhere and does not provide a pointwise descent or recurrence argument for every orbit; that every-orbit upgrade is the root blocker.

Scope. Every positive natural starting value under finitely many iterations of the unaccelerated Collatz map.

E1135:Erdős Problem #1135 “Does every positive Collatz orbit reach one?”

E1135: “Does every positive Collatz orbit reach one?”