1. Introduction and Definitions
Let
denote the class of meromorphic functions of the form
where
is the punctured unit disc defined by
. If
has the form (
1) and
g has the Laurent power series expansion
then the well-known
Hadamard (or convolution) product of
f and
g is defined by (see, for example [
1], p. 246)
The class
of
the starlike functions of order δ,
, is the subclass of
, consisting of the functions
that satisfy
and
is the well-known class of
starlike meromorphic functions (see [
2]).
Let
f and
g be two analytic functions in the open unit disk
or in the punctured one
. We say that
f is
majorized by
g (see [
3]), written as follows:
if there exists a function
analytic in
(or in
) and satisfying
,
(or in
), such that
The point
is an isolated singular point for the function
, while the
analytic in
is represented with
,
. Therefore, according to the
Cauchy–Riemann removability criterion for singularities (see, for example, [
4], Theorem 4.8.3, p. 128), the point
will be a removable singularity of
; thus, without loss of generality, we can assume that
is the analytic in
, such that
,
.
Also, according to [
5], we say that
f is
subordinate to
g, denoted as follows:
if there exists a function
analytic in
, with
and
for all
, such that
. Lemma 2.1. p. 36 of [
6] shows that if the function
g is univalent in
, then
if and only if
Like in [
7], the function
f is said to be
quasi-subordinate to
g if there exists a function
analytic in
, with
,
, such that the quotient function
is analytic in
and
and we denote this quasi-subordination by
Therefore, by the definition of subordination, the quasi-subordination (
4) is equivalent to the fact that there exists a function
analytic in
with
in
, such that
Note that if we set
in (
6), then the quasi-subordination (
5) reduces to the subordination (
3), while for the case
in (
6), the quasi-subordination (
5) becomes the majorization (
2).
In the 1990’s, the notion of a
-starlike function was defined in
Geometric Function Theory using
-calculus methods [
8]. Following that, this line of inquiry developed by introducing a number of
-calculus operators used for various investigations, such as defining new classes of analytic functions and obtaining a variety of characteristics for them. Also, many studies deal with different geometric properties and coefficients estimates for the functions of this class.
The
-analogue of the derivative and integral operator was described by Jackson [
9,
10] who also suggested some of their applications. Kanas and Răducanu defined the
-analogue of the Ruscheweyh differential operator using the idea of convolution; hence, they started the line of inquiry where the classical operators were adapted to the
-calculus aspects embedded in
Geometric Function Theory [
11]. The study of such types of properties was first suggested in [
11], and researchers quickly adopted the concept, such as Mahmood and Sokół [
12], Aldweby and Darus [
13], and many other research scholars that studied, over time, various classes of analytic functions defined using the Ruscheweyh differential operator’s
-analogue.
We will now introduce the fundamental idea of the
-calculus that was developed by Jackson [
10], which is useful for our future research. The Jackson’s
-difference operator
,
, for a function
f, is defined by
assuming that the function
f is differentiable at
. It follows easily that
where the
-integer is defined by (see, for details, [
9,
10,
14])
Also, the following fundamental laws hold for the
-difference operator:
In [
15], Aouf et al. generalized the
-Sălăgean operator, introducing the operator
,
,
,
, defined as follows:
Then,
and from (
7), we get
By using the operator , we define a new subclass of function as follows:
Definition 1. Let , , and . A function is said to be in the class of meromorphic functions of complex order
in if and only if The assumptions of this definition were made because of the following reasons: The condition
is necessary for obtaining the inequality (
19), while the assumption
was made to assure that the denominator of the fraction from the right-hand side of (
18) doesn’t vanishes in
, and consequently the function given by this fraction is analytic in
.
In particular, for
,
and
, we denote the class
and note the following:
- (i)
for
, the class
called the generalized class of meromorphic
-spiral-like functions of order
if
- (ii)
taking
and using the fact that
,
, for
, the class
reduces to the class
where
;
- (iii)
for
and
, the class
represents the meromorphic starlike univalent function of order
in
(see [
2,
16] for
).
Majorization problems for univalent functions involve finding conditions under which one univalent function majorizes another and has applications in various areas like the Geometric Function Theory and General Theory of Conformal Mappings.
A general problem connected with the majorization for multivalent functions is to determine simple sufficient conditions that imply the majorization between the images of two functions by different operators. This is a challenging problem since the multivalent functions have more complex behavior compared to the univalent functions, while understanding majorization in the context of multivalent functions is crucial for studying the properties of functions with multiple analytic branches. By establishing majorization criteria for multivalent functions, researchers can gain better insights into the behavior and structure of these functions.
Numerous scholars have written extensively about majorization issues for both univalent and multivalent functions. Both MacGregor [
3] and Altintas et al. [
17] (see also [
18]) have examined a majorization problem for the normalized classes of starlike functions. See, for instance, refs. [
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24] for recent expository works on majorization problems for meromorphic univalent and
p-valent functions; these articles deal with majorization problems for different classical subclasses of univalent functions.
Inspired by the previously stated research, the author of this paper uses the generalized -Sălăgean operator to investigate the majorization problem for the new class of meromorphic functions of complex order.
2. Main Results
Throughout the sequel, we will presume, unless otherwise noted, that
Theorem 1. Let the functions and . Suppose that , and let Ω
be the function that realizes this majorization. Assume thatwhereIfwherethen Proof. Since
, it follows from (
9), that
with
, where
denotes the class of analytic functions in
that satisfies the conditions
and
,
.
Denoting
Equation (
13) is equivalent to
or
where
. Using the relation (
15), it follows from (
14) that
and, using (
8) in (
16), we obtain
or equivalently
Since
, from the well-known
Schwarz lemma, we have
for all
. According to the triangle inequality, together with the assumption
, from the Definition 1, the relation (
17) leads to
where we used
and
Further, since
is majorized by
, and these two functions belong to the class
, we have
where
is an analytic function in
, such that
,
.
Applying the
-differentiation rule in the both sides of (
20) and multiplying by
z, we obtain the following:
Using (
8) and (
20) in (
21), it follows that the left-hand side of (
21) will be
while, for a similar reason, the right-hand side of (
21) becomes
From (
21), both of the right-hand sides of (
22) and (
23) will be equal, that is
or
Since
is an analytic in
and satisfies the inequality
,
, it follows Lemma 2.1 of [
25] that
According to the inequalities (
18) and (
25), from (
24) and the triangle inequality, we obtain
or
The inequality (
26) could be written in the form
where
If we denote for
the values
then
and consequently
Now, we will determine sufficient conditions on the parameters, such that
whenever
, for some
. Noting that under our assumptions the denominator of
is positive, the inequality
,
, is equivalent to
The next problem is to find the value
, such that
- (i)
For the first term of
, given by (
27), we easily obtain the following:
- (ii)
For the second term of , we have
That is because the supremum for the first term from the bracket of the above sum is attained at , while for the second term, it is attained from the bracket, and for the final factor, it is attained at .
Therefore, we could only to find a lower bound for this infimum, that is
Consequently, using (
28) and (
29), we achieve the following:
Thus, a sufficient condition for having the inequality (
27) is that the right-hand side of (
30) should be non-negative; that is, the function
given by (
12) satisfies
for some
that will be determined below.
If we assume that
is equivalent to the inequality (
11), it follows that
if
where
and the proof of our result is complete. □
3. Consequences and Special Cases
In this section, we will give some particular forms and examples obtained from Theorem 1 for different choices of the parameters. Thus, taking and in Theorem 1, we obtain the next result.
Corollary 1. Let and . Suppose that , and let Ω
be the function that realizes this majorization. Assume that the inequality (11) holds, where μ and τ are defined in Theorem 1. For , the Corollary 1 leads to the following example:
Example 1. Let the functions and , where is defined by (10). Suppose that , and let Ω be the function that realizes this majorization. Assume that the inequality (11) holds, where μ and τ are defined in Theorem 1. The next special case is obtained from the Corollary 1 by taking
,
and
; hence, we should assume that
. It follows immediately that the assumption becomes
, while the inequality of the conclusion will be
that is equivalent, according to the definition of this operator, to
Corollary 2. Let and . Suppose that , and let Ω
be the function that realizes this majorization. Assume thatwhere μ and τ are defined in Theorem 1. Ifwherethen the inequalityholds for . By setting in the Corollary 2, we obtain the following example, mentioning that extends the class obtained for :
Example 2. Let the functions and , . Suppose that , and let Ω
be the function that realizes this majorization. Assume that the inequality (31) holds, where μ and τ are defined in Theorem 1. Ifwherethen the inequality (32) holds for . Taking in Corollary 2, we obtain:
Example 3. Let and , . Suppose that , and let Ω
be the function that realizes this majorization. Assume that the inequality (31) holds, where μ and τ are defined in Theorem 1. then the inequality (32) holds for . Remark 1. The main theorem and all the results of the above corollaries and examples depend on the function Ω being an analytic in , such that , , which realizes the majorizations .
- 1.
Like a special case, more exactly as a circular transform that maps the open unit disk onto itself, we could consider the function: that represents the group of bilinear transforms that maps onto itself.
- 2.
Another function Ω
that realizes the majorizations could bewhich is analytic in with , .
In both of these cases, more exactly in the first one for , we could see that the values of μ and τ given in Theorem 1 are attained in the real axe and could be easily determined, which proves the existence of many examples and special cases where our results could be used.
4. Concluding Remarks
Finally, we conclude that new majorization results could be obtained for some subclasses of
defined by using the generalized
-Sălăgean operator
, defined in [
15] by using the main tool given by Lemma 2.1 of [
25], that is, the Nehari’s inequality for the Jackson’s
-difference operator.
In the main result, we obtained simple sufficient conditions, such as the subordination such that for and , the majorization implies in the disk , where is determined with the aid of the function that realizes this majorization.
For a given function
that realizes the majorization and for different choices of the parameters, we could determine the values of
and
, defined in Theorem 1, like we showed in
Section 3. Since another generalization of Nehari’s inequality given by Lemma 1 in [
24] was recently obtained, it is interesting to find a result corresponding to our main one, which was obtained by using this lemma instead of Lemma 2.1 of [
25]. Moreover, it remains an open question to determine which of the above-mentioned lemmas gives better results under some additional assumptions.
The main result could be used by choosing the functions and the function analytic in , such that , , which realizes the majorizations , while the above-mentioned radius could be determined such that the modules inequality of our result holds in this disk.
We believe that these results, where new generalized Nehari’s inequalities are used for the -difference operator, could be helpful for further studies involving majorization problems for different new subclasses of meromorphic functions defined by using this operator.