Assume is connected. Then the filled Julia set is connected and full, so its complement is simply connected. The local Bottcher coordinate therefore extends by the functional equation to a conformal isomorphism
If a finite critical point lay in , differentiating
at would give
Neither factor on the right vanishes on the exterior disc under a conformal coordinate, a contradiction. Hence every finite critical point lies in . This is one direction of the connected Julia set criterion for a polynomial.

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