Abstract
In this paper, we define a subclass of starlike functions associated with the Van der Pol numbers. For this class, we derive structural formula, radius of starlikeness of order , strong starlikeness, and some inclusion results. We also study radii problems for various classes of analytic functions. Furthermore, we investigate some coefficient-related problems which include the sharp initial coefficient bounds and sharp bounds on Hankel determinants of order two and three.
Keywords:
analytic functions; Van der Pol numbers; starlike functions; coefficient bounds; Hankel determinants; radii problems MSC:
30C45; 30C50
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Van der Pol [1] studied the sequence by using
where the numbers were later named Van der Pol numbers. These numbers are used in unsmoothing a smoothed function of three variables. The Bernoulli numbers are analogous to for functions of one variable. The first few of these numbers are ; see [2]. The numbers can be related with the Rayleigh function; see [2]. The Rayleigh functions can be represented in terms of the zeros of the Bessel function; see [3,4,5]. Howard [6] showed that Euler and Bernoulli polynomials have identical properties to the Van der Pol polynomials.
Geometric function theory is the study of the geometric properties of analytic functions in . The Riemann mapping theorem is considered as the cornerstone of the theory. The analytic and univalent functions and their generalizations have various applications, such as fluid mechanics [7], image processing, and signal processing [8], while conformal mappings (locally univalent functions) are very useful in cryptography.
Now we give some notions of the theory which will be helpful in our study.
Denote by the class of functions k which are analytic and have the expansion of the form in The class is well-known. A function is given as
Let represent a class of univalent functions in . We denote by a family of self maps , analytic (holomorphic) in with . The function with such properties is known as a Schwarz function. Consider that functions k and g are both analytic (holomorphic) in . Then we write mathematically , read as f is subordinated to g such that for and . If g is univalent (one-to-one) with , then .
This concept is very useful in studying various problems in function theory. Ma and Minda [9] beautifully utilized this concept to unify various classes of starlike and convex functions. These are defined analytically as and , respectively. The analytic and univalent function satisfies and and is a convex set in . We see that the class generalizes many classes. Some are given as follows:
- see [10].
- see [11].
- see [12].
- see [13].
- , see [14].
- see [15].
- , see [16].
- see [17].
- , see [18].
- , see [19].
- see [20,21].
The geometry of analytic functions related with some familiar sequences of numbers has been explored by some researchers working in the theory. The class related with Fibonacci numbers was introduced and investigated by Sokół [22]. The class related with Bell numbers was introduced by Cho et al. [23] and Kumar et al. [24], whereas functions related with generalized Telephone numbers were utilized by Deniz [25] to introduce a subclass of . The generating function for Euler numbers was recently used to introduce a subclass of starlike functions (see [26]), while the generating function for Bernoulli numbers is considered in [27] to investigate a subclass of
Motivated by the above contributions, we study starlike functions related with Van der Pol numbers.
The function defined in (1) is analytic in and maps onto a convex set and . We define the class of starlike functions by using the generating function of Van der Pol numbers as follows:
From the above definition, if and only if and
where h is analytic in . The set is non-empty; we present some examples for functions in it. Consider , given by
The function is univalent in . Furthermore, and This implies Therefore, from (3), we obtain the functions with to every , respectively, as follows:
We have the following layout of our work.
2. Inclusion Results
Firstly, we study the order of starlikeness and strong starlikeness for the class .
Lemma 1.
Let Then for ,
and
Proof.
For , and ; we have where
Let Then has 0 and roots. Furthermore, we see that and for Therefore, g has minima at and maxima at Hence,
and
Similarly,
where
and u and r are given in (4) and (5), respectively. Some computations show that has a minimum value at . Hence, we conclude that
□
Theorem 1.
The class satisfies the following relations:
- (i)
- for
- (ii)
- for
- (iii)
- , where
where is the root of the equation and h is defined in (7).
Proof. (i) Let Then, it is easy to see that
Therefore,
Hence, by using Lemma 1, we conclude that
Thus, where
(ii) Result follows from
(iii) Let Then
where
It is easy to see that has two roots in namely
Furthermore, we see that Hence, Thus,
□
Theorem 2.
The -radii, for is where is the solution of and
Proof.
Let Then from Lemma 1, we can write
Hence,
for Thus, the radius of for is the smallest root of □
3. Radius Problems
Consider the class
Furthermore, Let
Ali et al. [28] investigated the class . Now consider the following useful results to prove our results.
Lemma 2
([29]). If , then, for ,
Lemma 3
([30]). If , then, for
The main purpose of the next result is to obtain the disks of maximum radius and minimum radius centered at such that where is contained in the smallest disk and contains the largest disk.
Lemma 4.
Let . Then, the following inclusions hold:
where
and
where is the zero of The function h is given by (8) with , and
Proof.
Let Then
represents the boundary of . Let and . Then the square of the distance of to the boundary of is given by the function
where
To prove that is a disk with maximum radius contained in , we have to show that . Since , we consider only. We suppose that
where We see that the equation has the roots 0 and The graph of the function is positive in the interval Hence, it is increasing; therefore,
Now, we consider where Then has , and roots. The root depends upon We notice that in and in . We also see that for where Hence,
Similarly, we see that for Therefore,
For we notice that in . Hence,
For the case of the minimum radius of a circle centered at which contains , we calculate the maximum distance of to a point on the boundary of . We notice that h is increasing for Therefore,
When , the function has , and The root depends on The graph of indicates that when and when . We conclude that Furthermore, h is decreasing when and
Hence, we obtain the required result. □
Example 1.
(a) The function is in if and only if
(b) The function is in , if and only if
Proof.
(a) We know that if and only if . Since , we have , whenever . The function
maps onto
Since
The above two inequalities give us
respectively. Thus, we have
(b) Logarithmic differentiation of the function yields
The function maps onto
Hence, by using Lemma 4, it is contained in provided
Thus,
respectively. Thus, we have
Hence, we obtain the result. □
Theorem 3.
The -radius for is
Proof.
Let . Consider the function defined by
Taking logarithmic differentiation, it follows that
By applying Lemma 2, we obtain
By using Lemma 4, the image of under is contained in , if
This implies that
Hence, the -radius of is the root of in . Consider the function . Then in . Thus, and Furthermore, gives a sharp result, since at , we have
This completes the proof. □
Consider the class F defined as
Theorem 4.
The sharp -radius for F is
Proof.
(1) Let and define by and . Then, clearly . Since , by Lemma 2 it implies that
for . Consider
Thus, clearly
and hence, . A computation shows that at
This confirms the sharpness.
□
Theorem 5.
The sharp -radii for the classes , and are
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Proof.
(1) Let Then, we have . Thus, for , we have
By using Lemma 4, we obtain the hypothesis. Consider the function
Since , . Furthermore, at ; hence, the sharpness of the result is verified.
(2) Let . Then . Thus, for , we obtain
for . Consider the function given by
Since , it follows that and at , we have
Hence, the result is sharp.
(3) For we have
Sharpness is guaranteed by such that .
(4) Suppose . Then, (see [21]). Thus, for , we obtain
for . For sharpness, consider given by
Since , it follows that and at , we have
Hence, the result is sharp. □
4. Coefficient Estimates
Pommerenke [31] introduced the qth Hankel determinant for analytic functions. It is given as
where and We note that
and
To find the sharp upper bound of for subclasses of analytic function is much difficult. Only a few papers [32,33,34,35,36,37] are devoted to finding a sharp bound for In this section, we find the sharp coefficient bound and sharp results for the Hankel determinants , and
In order to prove our theorems, we will use the following useful results related to the functions in the class .
Let represent the class of functions p which are analytic and defined for given by
having positive real part in .
Lemma 5
([9]). Let be given by (11). Then
Lemma 6.
Let and of the form (11). Then
Lemma 7
([38,39]). If of the form (11) with , then
for some
Lemma 8
([40]). Let given by (11). Let and . Then
Lemma 9
([41]). Let be given by (11), , and let
Then
Lemma 10
([42]). Let , and J, K, L are real numbers; let
If then
Theorem 6.
Let be of the form (2). Then
These bounds are sharp.
Proof.
Let Then
where in . Now for and of the form (11), we can write
Now
Furthermore, we have
Substituting in (15) and comparing the coefficients, we obtain
The bound for can easily be obtained by using the well-known coefficient bounds for class . The bound for is obtained by using Lemma 5 for For we may write (19) as follows:
where and It is easy to verify that and Then by using Lemma 8, we have the required result. For we can rewrite (20) as
By using Lemma 9 with , and we have
Therefore,
For sharpness, consider the function given by
Then
Hence, , and
□
Next we investigate the Hankel determinant problems; the first two results study Fekete–Szego functional, which is a generalized form of .
Theorem 7.
Let be given by (2). Then
This result is sharp.
Proof.
If then from (17) and (18), we have
Then, by using Lemma 5 for this completes the result. □
Theorem 8.
Let be given by (2). Then
Sharpness is obtained by and given in (21) and (22), respectively.
Corollary 1.
Let and of the form (2). Then
This inequality is sharp for the function defined by (22).
Theorem 9.
Let and of the form (2). Then
This inequality is sharp for the function defined by (22).
Proof.
From (17)–(19), we obtain
Now we can write
where
The class as well as the functional are invariant (rotationally); we suppose that , such that . Then from (12) and (13) and by simplifying, we have
where x and y are such that ,
First assume that Then
From (26), we obtain
and when
so that
Next assume that . Using triangle inequality, we obtain
where
with , and . So clearly
Note now that
which shows that
Using Lemma 10, we have
where
Since for and hence from (26), we obtain the result.
It is sharp for given in (22). This completes the proof. □
Theorem 10.
Let and of the form (2). Then
This result is sharp.
Proof.
From (17)–(19), we obtain
where and It is clear that and By the application of Lemma 8, we obtain the result. It is sharp for defined by (23). □
Theorem 11.
Let and of the form Then
This bound is sharp.
Proof.
Using (17)–(20), we obtain
Using Lemma 7 and after simplification we obtain
where and
Now, by using and we obtain
where
with
To prove the result, we maximize over . We discuss all the cases one by one.
- I.
- Firstly, we prove that interior of has no critical point.
Let . Then
So when
If is in , a critical point, then , and
and
Suppose Now for . This implies that is decreasing in . Hence, We see that (27) is satisfied for and Now we prove that in We see that for ; we may write
Therefore
Now
and
Since for , for This shows that is decreasing. Hence, for
Therefore,
We see that takes its maximum value at . Thus,
Hence, . Therefore, G has no optimal solution in the interior of .
- II.
- Next we obtain the maxima inside the six faces of .
On the face , we have
As has no point of maxima in since
On the face , we write
On the face , reduces to , given by
where and . We solve and to obtain the required result. On solving , we obtain
For , which is possible only if , . The equation implies
By substituting Equation (29) in Equation (30) and simplifying, we obtain
After some simplifications, we have a solution of (31) in . This value does not satisfy (29). Thus we conclude that has no point of maxima in .
On , we have
Solving , we obtain as a critical point. We see that has maxima approximately equal to at .
On , can be written as
We see that by using the numerical method, the system and has no solution in .
On , reduces to
Similarly, and has no solution in .
- III.
- On the vertices of , we have
- IV.
- Lastly, we find points of maxima of on the 12 edges of .wherewhereSince all cases have been dealt with, we have the required result. The result is sharp for given in (23), which is equivalent to choosing and which from (10), gives □
5. Conclusions
We have defined and studied the starlike functions associated with Van der Pol numbers. We have studied certain geometrical characteristics of the said functions which include the derivation of structural formula, finding the radius of starlikeness of order and strong starlikeness, and establishing some inclusion results. We have also studied the radii problems for various classes of analytic functions. Furthermore, we have investigated some coefficient-related problems which include the sharp initial coefficient bounds and sharp bounds of Hankel determinants of order two and three. This work would be helpful in finding the bounds of the fourth Hankel determinant, Toelpitz determinants, bounds of logarithmic coefficients and their related Hankel determinants for the functions of defined class and their associated convex functions.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, M.R. and Q.X.; Methodology, M.R. and Q.X.; Software, M.A.; Validation, H.M.S. and S.N.M.; Formal analysis, H.M.S. and S.N.M.; Investigation, M.R., Q.X. and M.A.; Resources, M.A.; Data curation, F.T.; Writing—original draft, S.N.M.; Writing—review & editing, S.N.M.; Visualization, M.A.; Supervision, H.M.S.; Project administration, F.T.; Funding acquisition, F.T. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
No data is used in this work.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the researchers Supporting Project Number (RSP2023R401), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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