Javier Muñoz Romero

A Collision-Safe 21-Polynomial Gram Reduction for Defect-Three Collatz Kernels

A low-defect approach to hypothetical Collatz cycles leads, on the boundary branch h3 = s, to a cyclic operator with a seven-term Laurent kernel. After imposing η^−s = 2/3, two cyclic coincidences reduce this kernel to six atoms. Its Gram autocorrelation therefore contains 36 ord...