I have a paper that, IMHO, proves the Collatz conjecture. I will be looking at where to get it confirmed. I welcome comments.
Abstract: The Collatz tree can be formed naturally, resulting in a good looking tree, but the numbers seem chaotic. By reforming the tree, the tree becomes weird, but the numbers look nice. And it becomes clear that the hailstone algorithm and its inverse can be used to traverse down and up the tree, from the root to all integers and beyond, and back to the root (the number 1).
The link is http://dbarc.net/yr2024/collatz1.0.pdf
