Iterating $\tanh(A x)$ and $\lim_{x \to +\infty} \tanh^{[r]}(A x) = C_r$?

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Everybody who ever studied special relativity or hyperbolic trig knows this function

$$\tanh(Ax)$$

for real $0 < A < 1$

$\tanh(A x)$ has a nice attracting fixpoint at $0$ and it is asymptotic to a positive constant ($1$) for large positive $x$. It is also strictly increasing.

So this is very well suited to do complex dynamics on it.

So we consider $r$ iterations :

$$\tanh^{[r]}(A x)$$

for $r > 0$.

$$\tanh^{[0]}(A x) = x$$ $$\tanh^{[1]}(A x) = \tanh(A x)$$ $$\tanh^{[r+1]}(A x) = \tanh(A \tanh^{[r]}(A x))$$

Notice for every such $r$ (and fixed $A$)

$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} \tanh^{[r]}(A x) = \lim_{x \to 1/A} \tanh^{[r-1]}(A x) = C_r$$

!!Keep in mind!!: $$\tanh^{[r-1]}(1) \neq \lim_{x \to 1/A} \tanh^{[r-1]}(A x)$$

(because $A$ belongs to the part of the function that we iterate.)

Where $C$ is a constant depending on $r$.

I want to understand this for $0<A<1$.

Let us agree to use koenigs function around the fixpoint $0$ to generate the iterations or anything equivalent to that.

Then how does $C_r$ behave asymptotically ?

I added the tag tetration because it is a rational function of $\exp(x)$ afterall, hope that is ok.

See here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigs_function

See also this here what is essentially equal to koenigs, but might converge at at different speed :

Theorem about fractional iterated functions : is it true, and if yes has it already been discovered?

$$f^k(x) = \lim_{n\rightarrow+\infty}(f^{-n}((f^n(x)-\tau)f'(\tau)^k +\tau))$$