A Structural Framework for the Collatz Problem: Indexed Valuations, Affine Fibers, and Archimedean Realizability

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Authors: Daniel Augusto Jorge Zafaranich
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Abstract

We develop a fully algebraic and structural framework for the accelerated odd Collatz map, based on an exact encoding of finite orbit segments by valuation words and the associated Diophantine identities. We show that the inverse dynamics is locally rigid and that, at a global level, it necessarily organizes into affine fibers uniquely determined by the exact iterated inverse equation, without introducing any local degrees of freedom. Orbits are treated exclusively as finite algebraic objects, anchored at a prescribed terminal value, and are described equivalently by their initial or final state together with a finite word of $2$-adic valuations. This formalism enforces a strict separation between structural compatibility and realizability: every valuation word determines a unique compatible class in the $2$-adic sense, while Archimedean realizability in $\mathbb N$ imposes an independent global constraint. Cycles are characterized as closed finite segments and are shown to satisfy a single exact Diophantine equation depending only on the valuation word. Structural obstructions arising from prefix compatibility and from Archimedean non-realizability exclude both the existence of non-trivial odd cycles and that of realizable infinite orbits. The resulting structure provides a unified and rigid language for the inverse tree, finite orbits, and the structural analysis of the Collatz problem, reducing all questions of infinitude or convergence to explicit realizability conditions on finite algebraic data, with no uncontrolled structural degrees of freedom.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals advanced mathematical theories Analytic Number Theory Research

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
27 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint