Hierarchy of one and many - parameter families of elliptic chaotic maps of cn and sn types

We present hierarchy of one and many-parameter families of elliptic chaotic maps of cn and sn types at the interval [0, 1]. It is proved that for small values of k the parameter of the elliptic function, these maps are topologically conjugate to the maps of references [1, 2], where using this we have been able to obtain the invariant measure of these maps for small k and thereof it is shown that these maps have the same Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy or equivalently Lyapunov characteristic exponent of the maps [1, 2]. As this parameter vanishes, the maps are reduced to the maps presented in above-mentioned reference. Also in contrary to the usual family of one-parameter maps, such as the logistic and tent maps, these maps do not display period doubling or period-n-tupling cascade transition to chaos, but they have single fixed point attrac-tor at certain parameter values where they bifurcate directly to chaos without having period-n-tupling scenario exactly at these values of parameters whose Lyapunov characteristic exponent begin to be positive.