Abstract
The Geometric Theory of Analytic Functions was initially developed for the space of functions that are analytic in the unit disk. The convexity and starlikeness of functions are the first geometric ideas considered in this theory. We can notice a symmetry between the subjects considered in the space of analytic functions and those in the space of harmonic functions. In the presented paper, we consider the starlikeness of functions in the space of meromorphic harmonic functions.
Keywords:
meromorphic harmonic functions; starlike functions; subordination; convolution; correlated coefficients; extreme points MSC:
30C55; 30C45
1. Introduction
The Geometric Theory of Analytic Functions was initially developed for the space of analytic functions in the disk where . The convexity and starlikeness of functions are the first geometric ideas considered in this theory. We say that a function of the form
is starlike in if it is univalent in the unit disc and is a starlike domain with respect to the origin. By Jack’s Lemma, we obtain that the starlikeness of a function f in the unit disk is preserved inside this disk, i.e., f maps each disk onto a starlike domain with respect to the origin. It is equivalent to the following analytic condition:
Thus, we can obtain the following analytic definition of starlikeness. A function , is starlike in if and only if
Similar topics are considered in the space of analytic functions in , i.e., in the space of meromorphic functions.
We can also notice a symmetry between the subjects considered in the space of analytic functions and those in the space of harmonic functions. Clunie and Sheil-Small [1] transferred the ideas of convexity and starlikeness to the space of harmonic functions. Harmonic functions are famous for their use in the study of minimal surfaces and also play important roles in a variety of problems in applied mathematics (e.g., see Choquet [2], Dorff [3], or Lewy [4]). We say that is a harmonic function in a domain if it has continuous second-order partial derivatives and satisfies the Laplace equation
The function f defined in the domain is called a meromorphic harmonic function. Let denote the class of all such functions, with the normalization The object of this paper is to generalize and investigate starlike functions in the space of meromorphic harmonic functions.
A function that preserves the orientation of a Jordan curve is called sense-preserving or orientation-preserving. It is equivalent to saying that the Jacobian is strictly positive at every point of the domain .
Let be a harmonic, sense-preserving, and univalent function in Then, Hengartner and Schober [5] showed that there exist and functions of the form
such that
where and is analytic and bounded by 1 in .
Finally, we denote by the class of functions of the form
which are sense-preserving and univalent in
It should be noted that meromorphic harmonic functions have been extensively studied by researchers (see [6,7,8,9,10,11]).
A function is said to be meromorphic harmonic starlike in if f maps onto a curve that is starlike with respect to the origin, i.e., it satisfies the condition (1). If we define the following meromorphic harmonic derivative
then we can write the condition (1) as follows:
Researchers have extensively studied the class of starlike and convex functions and their generalizations in the space of analytic functions and the space of harmonic functions. They use various techniques and tools, e.g., subordination, convolution, and linear operators. Also, special functions play an important role in this aspect. The main one is the generalized hypergeometric function . We transfer these ideas to the space of meromorphic harmonic functions.
The well-known definition of subordination in the space is closely related to Jack’s Lemma, which does not apply in the space of meromorphic harmonic functions. Therefore, we adapt the definition of weak subordination introduced by Mauir [12].
We say that a function is weakly subordinate to a function , and we write if
Let
By , we denote the convolution of and defined by
Let , be the complex parameters. Using the generalized hypergeometric function , we define the function
where
and is the Pochhammer symbol defined, in terms of the Gamma function , as
Corresponding to the generalized hypergeometric function Dziok and Srivastava [13] introduced the linear operator defined in the space of analytic functions by the convolution The linear operator includes other linear operators considered in earlier works, for example, the Hohlov operator, the Carlson–Shaffer operator, Ruscheweyh derivatives, the generalized Bernardi–Libera–Livingston integral operator, and the Srivastava and Owa fractional derivative operator (for details, see [13]). Harmonic generalizations of the operator were considered by Al-Kharsani and Al-Khal [14] (see also [15,16]). We define a similar operator in the space of meromorphic harmonic functions.
Let and
Due to Dziok and Srivastava [13], we define the operator by the convolution formula
In particular, we have
and
The operator
is associated with the Ruscheweyh derivatives (see [17]), and the operator
is related to the harmonic Sălăgean operator [18] (see also [19,20]). For a function , we have
Using the above tools, we define generalizations of convex and starlike functions in the space Next, we consider classical extremal problems for the defined classes of functions with correlated coefficients. Some applications of the main results are also discussed.
2. Definitions of Main Subclasses of
In this section, we define the main subclasses of the space and formulate alternative definitions for these classes of functions. Let us assume
We denote bythe class of functions for which
or, equivalently,
Also, by , we denote the class of functions such that
In particular, the classes
are associated with the Ruscheweyh derivatives , and the classes
are related to the harmonic Sălăgean operator . The classes
are related to the Janowski functions [21] (see also [10,22]). Putting , we obtain the classes
of meromorphic harmonic starlike and convex functions of order , respectively. Finally, is the class of meromorphic harmonic starlike functions, and is the class of meromorphic harmonic convex functions.
Motivated by Ruscheweyh [23], we define the dual set of the class by
Now, we show that the main classes of functions can be defined as dual sets.
Theorem 1.
where
Proof.
Let
Then, , i.e., if and only if
or, equivalently,
Thus, if and only if
Since
by (11), we have
Therefore, if and only if , i.e., □
Theorem 2.
where
Proof.
Similarly to the proof of Theorem, we obtain that if and only if
Since
we have if and only if for and i.e., □
Next, we construct the alternative definitions for the main classes of functions with correlated coefficients. Let be the function of the form
If a function of the form (2) satisfies
then we say that it has coefficients correlated with the function In particular, we obtain functions with varying coefficients, as introduced by Jahangiri and Silverman [24] (see also [15,22]), by setting
for some real number . Moreover, if we set
then we obtain functions with negative coefficients, as defined by Silverman [25] (see also [20,26]).
We denote by the class of functions with coefficients correlated with the function
where is defined by (6). Moreover, let us define
If a function is of the form (2), then by (14) and (15), we have
or, equivalently,
where
Theorem 3.
Proof.
Let be of the form (2). Then by (7), we have
Moreover, by (18), we obtain
It is easy to show that the Jacobian of the function is given by
A function is sense-preserving and locally univalent if the Jacobian of f is positive in. Lewy [4] proved that the converse theorem holds for harmonic mappings. Since
we have that is locally univalent and sense-preserving in To obtain the univalence of f, we assume that If we set , by (20) and the inequality
we obtain
Thus, Moreover, for functions of the form (10), and we have
This means that
and, by Theorem 3, we conclude that □
The sufficient coefficient bound given in Theorem 3 becomes the definition of the class of functions with correlated coefficients, as stated in the following theorem.
Proof.
By Theorem 3, we need to prove the “only if” part. Let be of the form (2) and let
Since , i.e., , and J is univalent in , we can define the function
Then, and for , i.e.,
Thus,
Since
we obtain
Thus, for we have
which, by (16), gives
We note that the denominator on the left-hand side cannot be zero for and it is positive for Thus, it is positive for . Consequently, by (22), we obtain
Let denote the sequence of partial sums associated with the series It is clear that this is a non-decreasing sequence and bounded by Thus, the sequence is convergent and
which gives (18). □
In the same way, we obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 5.
By Theorems 4 and 5, we have the following corollary.
Corollary 1.
If and
then
3. Radii of Meromorphic Starlikeness and Convexity
A function is called meromorphically starlike of order in if
Similarly, if
then f is called convex of order in Simple calculations show that a function is meromorphically starlike of order in if and only if
or
For the class , we define the radius of starlikeness of order by
and the radius of convexity of order by
In particular, we obtain the radius of starlikeness and the radius of convexity for the class .
Theorem 6.
Proof.
For a function of the form (2) and for , we have
Thus, the condition (25) is true if
By Theorem 1, we have
where and are given by (17). Therefore, the condition (27) is true if
or, equivalently,
It follows that the function is meromorphically starlike of order in the disk , where
It is easy to verify that the functions and of the form
give equality in (28). Thus, we have (26). □
In the same way, we obtain the following two theorems.
Theorem 7.
Theorem 8.
Setting in Theorems 6–8, we obtain the following corollary.
Corollary 2.
4. Extreme Points
First, we study the topological and convexity properties of the classes of correlated coefficients. Let us consider thelinear topology on given byuniform convergence on a compact subset of .
We say that aclass is convex if any convex linear combination of two functions from belongs to . Wedenote by the closed convex hull of , i.e., theintersection of all closed convex subsets of that contain .
A function is called an extreme point of if it cannot be represented as a non-degenerate convex linear combination of two functions from . Wedenote by theset of all extreme points of It is clear that
We say that a functional is convex on aconvex class if
Let . We denote by the class of functions f of the form
which are analytic in . By , we denote class of functions that satisfy the condition
From Montel’s theorem, we have the following lemma.
Lemma 1.
A class is compact if and only if is closed and locally uniformly bounded.
Lemma 2.
The class is compact.
Proof.
A class islocally uniformly bounded if for each there isa real constant such that
Let Then, by (30), we have
This implies that the class is locally uniformly bounded. Next, we show that it is a closed set. Let f be a function of the form (2), and let be a sequence of functions given by
By (30), we obtain
If then we obtain that and as . Thus, by (31), we have
and consequently, which completes the proof. □
Theorem 9.
The class is a compact and convex subclass of .
Proof.
Let and be functions of the form
Then, we have
Moreover, by Theorem 4, we obtain
Thus, the function belongs to the class , and consequently, the class is convex.
Let be a sequence of the form where
By Theorem 4, we have
Thus,
and consequently,
By Lemma 2, there exists a subsequence of the sequence that converges to the function In the same way, there exists a subsequence of the subsequence that converges to the function Thus, the subsequence of the sequence converges to the function By Theorem 4, we obtain that and as . Thus, by (31), we have
and consequently, Thus, we obtain that the class is compact, which completes the proof. □
Theorem 10.
Proof.
Let and be functions of the form (32). If then by (29), we obtain Thus, for and for This means that and consequently, Analogously, we obtain that the functions of the form (29) are the extreme points of the class Now, let be not of the form (29). Then there exists such that
If , then for
we have that , and Thus, Analogously, if , then by setting with we obtain
Thus, which completes the proof. □
Analogously, we prove the next theorem.
Theorem 11.
The class is a compact and convex subclass of . Moreover, the functions and of the form
are the extreme points of the class
5. Applications
From the Krein–Milman theorem (see [27]), we have the following lemma.
Lemma 3.
Let be a non-empty compact convex subclass of the class , and let be a real-valued, continuous, and convex functional on Then,
and
Lemma 4
([28]). Let . If then
If the class is locally uniformly bounded, then
Thus, by Lemma 3 and Theorem 10, we obtain
Corollary 3.
Corollary 4.
It is easy to verify that the functionals
are continuous and convex functionals on . Therefore, by Lemma 3 and Theorem 10, we have the following corollaries.
Corollary 5.
Corollary 6.
Analogously, we obtain the following results for the class
Corollary 7.
Remark 1.
If we choose parameters in the considered classes of functions, we can obtain several additional results. Some of these results were obtained in earlier works (see, for example, [6,7,8,9,10,11]).
Funding
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