Abstract
This study introduces a new integral operator that extends the traditional Rafid operator to meromorphic p-valent functions. Using this operator, we define and investigate two new subclasses: , consisting of functions with nonnegative coefficients, and , which further fixes the second positive coefficient. For these classes, we establish a necessary and sufficient coefficient condition, which serves as the foundation for deriving a set of sharp results. These include accurate coefficient bounds, distortion theorems for functions and derivatives, and radii of starlikeness and convexity of a specific order. Furthermore, we demonstrate the closure property of the class , identify its extreme points, and then construct a neighborhood theorem. All the findings presented in this paper are sharp. To demonstrate the practical utility of our symmetric operator paradigm, we apply it to a canonical fractional electrodynamics problem. We demonstrate how sharp distortion theorems establish rigorous, time-invariant upper bounds for a solitary electrostatic potential and its accompanying electric field, resulting in a mathematically guaranteed safety buffer against dielectric breakdown. This study develops a symmetric and consistent approach to investigating the geometric characteristics of meromorphic multivalent functions and their applications in physical models.
Keywords:
meromorphic p-valent functions; meromorphic Rafid operator; distortion theorems; radii of starlikeness and convexity; fractional electrodynamics; singular potentials MSC:
30C45; 30C50; 30C80
1. Introduction
The geometric theory of meromorphic functions dates back to Karl Weierstrass [1], who established their singularity structure through partial fraction decompositions. Mittag-Leffler [2] expanded this by developing canonical representations for functions with infinite poles. The field was transformed when Pommerenke [3] introduced meromorphically starlike functions, described by the geometric condition This class, inspired by Alexander’s [4] starlike univalent functions, was critical for mapping radius difficulties. Miller [5] expanded this concept to meromorphically convex functions with , relating complex derivatives to geometric distortion.
Kumar and Shukla [6] pioneered the generalization to p-valent meromorphic functions, which have poles of order p. Their approach enabled the modeling of higher-order singularities ( ). This approach revealed complex relationships between valency, coefficient bounds, and geometric features, which were later developed by many authors [7,8,9].
Operators have made significant contributions to the advancement of geometric function theory. Ruscheweyh [10] developed convolution operators for univalent functions, while Altıntaş and Srivastava [11] created the first operators that preserve meromorphic starlikeness. Recent developments include Aouf’s q-differential operators for distortion control [9] and Totoi’s subordination-preserving integrals [12]; see also [13]. A particularly influential operator in the study of analytic univalent functions is the Rafid operator [14]. Its success in producing new classes and facilitating the identification of sharp geometric characteristics motivates its wider application.
In this study, we bridge a significant gap in the literature by generalizing the Rafid operator to the class of meromorphic p-valent functions. We introduce the new operator, , which is a powerful tool for studying this family of functions. Using this operator, we introduce two new subclasses and . Also, we provide a full set of sharp results for these classes, including coefficient bounds, distortion theorems, radii of starlikeness and convexity, closure under convex linear combinations, extreme points, and neighborhood results. As a result, this work methodically integrates and expands on classical meromorphic function theory results, laying a solid platform for future research. To demonstrate the practical utility of this unified approach, we devote a section to its application in obtaining rigorous safety bounds for solitary electrostatic potentials governed by fractional diffusion equations.
The manuscript flows naturally: Section 2 contains the core definitions, notation, and mathematical preliminaries. Section 3 advances the theoretical results. Section 4 shows how our theory may be applied to a fractional diffusion model in electrodynamics to obtain rigorous bounds for singular potential fields. Section 5 provides concluding observations and suggestions for future study.
2. Preliminaries and Definitions
The mathematical foundation for this work is based on the class of analytic and p-valent functions defined on the punctured open unit disk . Every function has a Laurent series expansion of the form
. Our analysis will focus on a specific subclass of , consisting of functions with non-negative coefficients. A function belongs to if it has the form
Definition 1.
Let two functions , be defined by
and the Hadamard product (or convolution) of and , denoted by , is defined as
The Hadamard product is commutative by definition, which means that . Additionally, if , then .
Definition 2.
Pommerenke [3] established the foundational geometric classes for univalent meromorphic functions (). He introduced the class of meromorphically starlike functions, , as functions satisfying
Shortly after, Miller [5] defined the analogous class of meromorphically convex functions, , satisfying
These definitions were later refined to include an order , leading to the classes and . Kumar and Shukla [6] extended the definitions to the class . The framework defines a function as p-valent meromorphically starlike of order α if
and p-valent meromorphically convex of order α if
These p-valent classes form the geometric foundation for the new subclasses we introduce in this paper.
The employment of linear operators is an effective way to define and investigate new subclasses of analytic and meromorphic functions. The Rafid operator, originally defined for analytic univalent functions, has proved useful in the study of geometric features [14]. This operator and its variants have been widely researched for several classes of functions [15,16,17,18,19,20]; nevertheless, a generalization to the class of p-valent meromorphic functions remains unexplored. Motivated by this gap and the established efficacy of operator-based techniques, we develop a new generalized integral operator, inspired by the Rafid operator, specially built for the class .
Definition 3.
For , , and we introduce the operator as
This integral is well-defined for and due to the exponential decay of the kernel, ensuring the function over . By substituting the Laurent series (1) of f into the integral and following Fubini’s Theorem (supported by the non-negativity of the integrand for and the absolute convergence of the resulting series), we can obtain the corresponding series representation:
where the kernel function is provided by
In addition, the operator obeys the following differential relation:
Note that
- 1.
- 2.
Building on the operator defined above, we will now introduce a new subclass of p-valent meromorphic functions.
Definition 4.
We introduce the subclass as the set of all for which the following holds:
which is geometrically equivalent to the standard condition for meromorphic starlikeness of order α Much of our subsequent analysis focuses on the subclass of non-negative coefficient functions. We denote this subclass by , which is formally defined as the intersection
where is the class of functions with non-negative coefficients. This subclass is particularly important since the positive constraint on the coefficients often allows the derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions, which is a prominent subject in our primary findings.
The parameters for the class and its subclasses fall between the following ranges:
The limiting behavior of these parameters relates our generalized operator to well-known traditional operators and classes. For example,
(i) The limitations and , respectively, reduce the operator to the particular operators and , as noted in Definition 3.
(ii) The limitation returns the classical class of meromorphically starlike functions of order 0.
By selecting specific values for the parameters, we can recover the following special cases:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Also, we define the neighborhood for , building on the work of Goodman [21], Ruscheweyh [10], and Altıntaş et al. [11,22].
Definition 5.
For provided by (1) and for , we defined the σ-neighborhood as
and for
For the univalent case, when , this definition reduces to the neighborhood for the class Σ, a concept established by Elkhatib et al. ([23], with ).
Table 1 summarizes the key symbols and parameters frequently utilized in this study.
Table 1.
Frequently used symbols.
3. Principal Findings
Here, we establish the principal analytical characteristics of the function class , introduced in Definition 4. Our first and most important finding is that a function must satisfy a necessary and sufficient coefficient condition to be classified in this class. This fundamental theorem is a powerful tool from which we can derive several essential properties. Specifically, we will obtain sharp coefficient estimates, distortion theorems that provide bounds on the function and its derivative, and other geometric properties such as radii of starlikeness and convexity. Indeed, we will investigate the structural properties, such as closure in convex linear combinations, the identification of extreme points, and a neighborhood theorem.
The following theorem characterizes the class using a necessary and sufficient coefficient condition.
Theorem 1.
Let f be given by (1). Then if and only if
Proof.
Assume inequality (7) holds. We will demonstrate that . From (5) we have
Therefore, the maximum modulus theorem implies Conversely, assuming that we find that
since for all we get
As the inequality (7) is derived from the condition and holds for every , the maximum modulus principle implies that it is true on the closed disk. To determine the coefficient bound, we assume z is a positive real number (, ). On the real axis, the expressions are real. Taking the limit as and noting that the coefficients are non-negative (ensuring that the series converges to the precise coefficient total), the inequality reduces immediately to the necessary condition (7). □
Theorem 1 leads to the following sharp bound on the coefficients .
Corollary 1.
If provided by (1) is in , then for each , we have the sharp coefficient bound
where equality is attained for the extremal functions
In many applications, it is beneficial to analyze a subclass of functions where the first coefficient, , is fixed. Motivated by this, we introduce the subclass of as the set of functions
for a constant c Note that the limit in subclass defines functions with decreasing contributions from higher-order coefficients ().
We now establish the coefficient condition for functions in .
Theorem 2.
For provided by (8), = if
Theorem 2 gives the following sharp estimate for the coefficients for .
Corollary 2.
Building on previous findings, we now set bounds on the sums of the coefficients. These estimations are critical to demonstrating the distortion theorems that follow.
Theorem 3.
If then we have
and
The results are sharp, with equality for both bounds being attained for the extremal function
We now apply the coefficient bounds from Theorem 3 to compute distortion properties for functions in the class . The following theorem gives sharp upper and lower bounds for the modulus of .
Theorem 4.
For and we obtain
These constraints are sharp because equality is established for the function defined as
where both the upper and lower bounds are realized for a correctly chosen real z.
Following a similar approach, we use the coefficient bounds of Theorem 3 to obtain the distortion bounds for the derivative .
Theorem 5.
For and we obtain
These constraints are sharp because equality is established for the function provided by (14).
The distortion bounds in Theorems 4 and 5 follow the predicted classical behavior. The growth in a function in is governed by the dominating singular term , where is the radial variable. In addition, when the generalized operator is reduced to a classical operator, the bounds in these theorems collapse precisely to the known sharp bounds for those specific classes, demonstrating the coherence of our generalized conclusions.
We next find the sharp radius of the disk in which every function in is starlike for a given order v.
Theorem 6.
For is starlike of order v in where is the largest value for which
for This result is sharp because equality is established for the function provided by (10).
Proof.
To establish this, it is necessary to demonstrate that
We observe that
Therefore, inequality (16) is satisfied for if the following condition holds:
In view of the coefficient condition (9), we can choose the coefficients to be of the form
where and For a fixed , we define as the index of the sequence
attains its maximum value. The presence of such an index is ensured since the coefficients are positive, and the behavior of the sequence for large k ensures that a maximum is reached within a bounded range of indices for any fixed . Therefore, we obtain
then f is starlike of order v in if the following condition is satisfied:
We find the value and the corresponding integer such that
This completes the proof, and the value represents the sharp radius of starlikeness of order v for the class □
Following the same line of reasoning used to determine the radius of starlikeness, we next determine the sharp radius of convexity for .
Theorem 7.
For f f is convex of order v in and is the largest value such that
for . This result is sharp because equality is established for the function provided by (10).
Proof.
Using the proving technique of Theorem 6, we demonstrate that
and the result follows for by applying the coefficient bounds from Theorem 2. □
Now, we explore the closure properties of the class .
Theorem 8.
The class is closed under a convex linear combination.
Proof.
Let and be in , provided by (8), and let be given by:
We need to show that the convex combination
is also in the class for . Writing the function in its series form, we get
A direct result of Theorem 2 is that
Hence □
We now find the extreme points of the class . These points are essential because they create the entire class using convex combinations.
Theorem 9.
The extreme points of are and , defined as follows:
and for ,
Consequently, a function is equivalent to its expressibility as a convex linear combination of these extreme points:
where , and
Proof.
First, suppose that may be written as a convex linear combination of the kind provided in (19). By incorporating the definitions of the extreme points from (17) and (18) into that sum, we get
Since
according to Theorem 2, Conversely, consider and satisfies (12) for ; then,
and
With this, the proof of Theorem 9 is completed. □
Our final result for this section is a neighborhood theorem for the class .
4. Applications to Fractional Electrodynamics
In this section, we demonstrate the practical utility of our theoretical framework developed in Section 2 and Section 3. Traditional fractional operators, such as Riemann–Liouville and Caputo operators, require a locally integrable initial condition near the singularity. However, electrostatic potentials with higher-order poles, such as , violate this condition, rendering these operators inapplicable in their standard form [24].
Higher-order singularities () provide a substantial issue in mathematical physics. Electrostatic systems, such as a charged hyperbolic protrusion or a dipole line (double layer), produce precisely integer-order poles of the form [25]. These are not approximations but actual solutions to Laplace’s equation in non-smooth domains under Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions [25]. The Laurent expansion for such solutions is , with analytic and positive near and non-negative Laurent coefficients. This structure categorizes them precisely as . This alignment enables the straightforward application of the sharp coefficient bounds derived in Theorems 4 and 5.
Our operator is specifically designed to handle such singular solutions. We define a dominant function whose coefficients are the absolute values of the series coefficients of the solution . The Caputo fractional diffusion operator preserves the non-negativity of Laurent coefficients under initial conditions with non-negative [26]. Additionally, our initial condition satisfies the sharp coefficient condition of Theorem 2:
for all . Thus, . This allows us to apply the sharp distortion theorems (Theorems 4 and 5) to deduce physically meaningful and rigorous upper bounds for the solution and its derivative. This method translates abstract coefficient bounds into tangible engineering margins, resulting in a reliable and cautious approximation of field behavior near singularities.
To illustrate this methodology, we consider a canonical problem: the evolution of a singular potential governed by the one-dimensional fractional diffusion equation, a model of subdiffusive relaxation in dispersive media [27]. The specific problem is the fractional partial differential equation (FPDE):
where is the generalized diffusion coefficient, and is the fractional derivative of Caputo of order , provided by [26]:
To ensure dimensional consistency in Equation (23), the units of the generalized diffusion coefficient must be expressed in square millimeters per second to the power of delta , where represents length L, and s represents time T.
The equation is subject to the following initial condition:
where is the order of the singularity, and is an analytic and positive function near . We interpret this as a radial problem on the punctured disk. Using (with mm), we map the physical domain to . This scaling is crucial because it integrates the physical variable into the complex domain , where function theory is defined, resulting in . This mapping preserves the singularity structure and enables the straightforward application of our theoretical results to obtain theoretically derived bounds on the system’s behavior.
4.1. The Physical Model and Problem Formulation
We now identify the parameters for our model, which is designed to represent the subdiffusive relaxation of an electrostatic-like potential near a sharp, charged protrusion of a shape known to produce a second-order singularity in the potential field. Such configurations occur physically in systems such as the field as a result of a line of dipoles (a double layer) or a hyperbolic charge distribution [25].
The surrounding medium is treated as a polymer dielectric with unusual subdiffusive characteristics. We choose a fractional order of , which aligns with relaxation dynamics in amorphous polymers [28], and a generalized diffusion coefficient of mm/s, which represents diffusivity in such media. For the operator , we work within the subclass , defined by the parameters
- : corresponding to the dominant singularity;
- : matching the subdiffusive exponent of the medium;
- : maximizing the sensitivity of the operator to the singularity;
- : assuring the least restrictive geometric condition for the extremal case;
- : since the initial field has no linear component ().
For the initial condition, we define the analytic function as
Consequently, from (24), the specific initial condition is
This function belongs to subclass and satisfies the coefficient condition of Theorem 2 with equality
Combining these elements with Equation (23), the entire initial boundary value problem to be addressed is as follows:
Our goal is twofold: first, to derive exact upper bounds for the magnitude of the potential and the electric field ; second, to demonstrate how these abstract coefficient-based bounds translate into conservative, life-saving engineering margins for high-voltage insulation systems operating near geometric singularities.
4.2. Solution Bounds via a Dominant Function
We now show our solution methods for the initial boundary value problem (27). Our approach focuses on constructing a dominating function that majorizes rather than finding a closed-form solution. Using the operator and ensuring remains within the subclass for all , we can directly apply the sharp distortion theorems (Theorems 4 and 5) to obtain rigorous, time-invariant upper bounds for both the potential and the electric field .
4.2.1. Series Representation and Dominant Function Construction
Let us suppose that the solution to (27) enables a series representation of the form
where the coefficients are time-dependent. Using the initial condition (26), we get
We now construct the dominant function by taking the absolute values of the coefficients of :
It follows immediately from the fundamental triangle inequality that
Specifically, for , . For , we proceed with the premise that the dissipative nature of the Caputo-time fractional diffusion operator retains the non-negativity of the Laurent coefficients , which are initiated by the non-negative initial condition . This assures that the dominating function remains within a subclass of for any , which is necessary for applying the distortion theorems.
4.2.2. Applications of Distortion Theorems
We now apply the distortion theorems to the dominant function , where .
- Bound on Potential
Applying Theorem 4, we have the following:
- Bound on Electric Field
Applying Theorem 5, we have the following:
These bounds apply for all and .
4.2.3. Numerical Evaluation and Physical Interpretation
From Equation (4), the constant is given by
From (28) and (29), for mm away from the wedge singularity, we obtain explicit, numerically tight constraints:
- Potential Bound
- Field Strength Bound
5. Conclusions
This work successfully generalized the notion of a Rafid operator to meromorphic p-valent functions and introduced a new integral operator . Using this operator, we defined and analyzed two novel subclasses and .
Our main contributions are comprehensive and sharp. We established a fundamental, necessary, and sufficient condition for membership in these classes, which provided the basis for drawing several accurate conclusions. These include sharp coefficient bounds, distortion theorems, radii of starlikeness and convexity of a given order, closure properties under convex linear combinations, extreme points, and neighborhood results. All findings are sharp and extremal functions are clearly characterized.
This paper presents a cohesive framework for extending and generalizing various known results in the geometric theory of meromorphic functions. This framework’s power is demonstrated by its successful application in Section 4, where it gives mathematically assured constraints for singular potentials in fractional electrodynamics, converting abstract operator theory to concrete safety criteria. The operator-based technique shown here is an effective tool for evaluating the geometric characteristics of meromorphic multivalent functions.
For future research, we will explore the potential application of this theoretical framework to address problems in complex differential equations or potential theory.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, A.O.M. and M.M.T.; methodology, A.O.M.; software, A.F.E. and A.F.H.; validation: A.F.E. and A.O.M.; formal analysis, A.F.E., A.F.H., A.O.M. and M.M.T.; investigation, A.F.E., A.F.H., A.O.M. and M.M.T.; resources: A.F.H., A.O.M. and M.M.T.; data curation, A.F.H.; writing original draft preparation, A.F.H.; calculations, review and editing, A.F.E., A.O.M. and M.M.T.; supervision, A.O.M. and M.M.T.; funding acquisition, A.F.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported and funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) (grant number IMSIU-DDRSP2504).
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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