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The Collatz problem, widely known as the 3x + 1 problem, asks whether or not a certain simple iterative process halts on all inputs. In this paper, we build on work of J. H. Conway to show that a natural generalization of the Collatz problem is \({\it \Pi}^0_2\) complete.
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Kurtz, S.A., Simon, J. (2007). The Undecidability of the Generalized Collatz Problem. In: Cai, JY., Cooper, S.B., Zhu, H. (eds) Theory and Applications of Models of Computation. TAMC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4484. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72504-6_49
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