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Can an entire function be a sigmoid over R?

Define a sigmoid as any bounded, odd, increasing function from $\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, and a pretty sigmoid as a sigmoid which is convex over $\mathbb{R^-}$ and concave over $\mathbb{R^+}.$

  1. Can an entire function be a (pretty) sigmoid?

If so, let $P$ be the smallest set of functions from $\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ containing polynomials and closed under exponentiation and composition.

  1. Does $P$ contain a (pretty) sigmoid?
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