Published as:Hawkins, Jane, Lorelei Koss, and Janina Kotus. Elliptic Functions with Critical Orbits Approaching Infinity. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 16, no. 5-6 (2010): 613-30.For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website.

We construct examples of elliptic functions, viewed as iterated meromorphic functions from the complex plane to the sphere, with the property that there exist one or more critical points which approach the essential singularity at ∞ under iteration but are not prepoles. We obtain many nonequivalent elliptic functions satisfying this property, including examples with Julia set the whole sphere as well as examples with nonempty Fatou set. These are the first examples of this type known to exist and provide examples to illustrate unusual chaotic measure theoretic behaviour studied by the third author and others.

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