Abstract
The main objective of this research is to investigate specific sufficiency criteria for the strongly starlikeness, strongly convexity, starlikeness, convexity and pre-starlikeness of the normalized Miller-Ross function. Furthermore, we establish sufficient conditions under which the normalized Miller-Ross function belongs to Hardy spaces and the class-bounded analytic functions. Some of the various results which are derived in this paper are presumably new and their significance is illustrated through several interesting examples.
Keywords:
Miller-Ross functions; analytic functions; univalent functions; convex functions; starlike functions; strongly starlike functions; strongly convex functions; pre-starlike functions; Hardy spaces MSC:
30C45; 30C55; 33E20; 30H10
1. Introduction
Special functions are extremely important due to their role in mathematical analysis, especially functional analysis, physics, and other scientific fields. Although there is no generalized version of these functions, there are several mathematical functions on the list that are recognized as special functions, such as elementary functions and, in particular, trigonometric functions. With the contributions of Klein, Gauss, Euler, Jacobi, Bessel, and a few more, the idea of special functions grew during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While Bessel developed the Bessel function to solve differential equations arising in physics, Euler introduced the elliptic integral and the Gamma function. The contributions of mathematicians such as Legendre, Hermite, and Chebyshev in the 20th century contributed to the expansion of the theory of special functions.
Geometric Function Theory is a significant branch of complex analysis that focuses on the geometric behavior of analytic functions. It is based on the theory of univalent functions, which has given rise to many related fields. Special functions play a fundamental role in geometric function theory, with one of the most notable applications being their connection to the resolution of the famous Bieberbach conjecture by L. de Branges [1]. Recently, researchers have established several interesting results on the geometric properties of some classes of analytic functions. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that researchers in these fields are obtaining interesting results and achieving their application thanks to new methodologies and theoretical techniques. This line of research has been studied in various works, including the Mittag-Leffler functions [2,3,4], Wright functions [5], Fox–Wright functions [6], Dini functions [7,8], modified Bessel functions [9], Bessel functions [10,11,12], hypergeometric functions [13,14,15], and Miller-Ross function [16]. Moreover, motivated by the results of Eker and Ece [16], further results on the geometric behavior of the Miller-Ross function were obtained by Mehrez [17]. Our aim in this paper is to make a further contribution to the subject by showing some new geometric properties of the Miller-Ross function.
Now, we recall some basic definitions related to the context. Assume that the class of analytic functions in the open unit disk
is denoted by We denote by the class of analytic functions satisfying the normalization conditions such that
A function is said to be univalent in a domain E if it never takes the same value twice; that is, if for implies that We denote the class of univalent functions in by A function is known as a starlike function (with respect to the origin) in if h is univalent in and the domain is starlike with respect to the origin in Let us denote by the class of starlike functions in the unit disk It is important to note that the characterization of such starlike functions in is as follows [18]:
For a given , a function is said to be starlike of order denoted by if the inequality
holds true for all (for more details, see [19]).
A function in is said to be convex in if is a univalent function in with as a convex domain in We denote the class of convex functions by which can also be described as follows [18]:
Moreover, if
where , then h is called convex of order We denote the class of convex functions of order by We remark that for all , we have
Let and denote the classes of strongly starlike and strongly convex functions of order , respectively. These classes are analytically defined as follows:
- A function if and only if
- A function if and only if
It is worth mentioning that
Additionally, for a given we introduce the following classes of analytic functions described as follows [18,20]:
Additionally, we have the classes and for .
Assume that and are analytic in Then, is subordinate to in denoted by (or ), if there exists a Schwarz function which is analytic in satisfying the conditions and for any such that
The convolution or the Hadamard product of two power series
and
is defined as the power series [18]
In [21], Ruscheweyh introduced another class of analytic functions, denoted by , known as pre-starlike functions, defined as follows:
where the function is defined by
The class of pre-starlike functions was extended in [22] by generalizing the class to , defined as follows:
where
Let denote the space of all bounded functions in . We suppose that and set
It is well-known from [23] that belongs to the Hardy space where , if the set is bounded. Moreover, we note that for we have
Now, consider the Miller-Ross function, which is defined by [24]
To investigate the geometric properties of the Miller-Ross function, we consider the following normalized form [16,17]:
In this paper, we consider the normalized form of the Miller-Ross function defined by (3). We present some new geometric properties for this class for a specific range of parameters.
The upcoming sections of the present paper are organized as follows: in Section 2, we recall some known lemmas that will be useful for establishing the mains results. In Section 3, some specific ranges of parameters are derived so that the normalized form of the Miller-Ross function possesses certain geometric properties such as strongly starlikeness and strongly convexity as well as starlikeness, convexity and pre-starlikeness in the unit disk. In Section 4, as an application, we determine sufficient conditions on the parameters for which this function belongs to the Hardy spaces and Moreover, some sufficient conditions are established so that some classes of functions related to the Miller-Ross function belong to the spaces and
2. Relevant Lemmas
In this section, we include several lemmas, each of which will be used to prove the main results.
Lemma 1
([25]). Let such that . Assume that h is univalent and convex in , and that in . Then
Lemma 2
([26]). Let A sufficient condition for the function defined by (1) to be in and , respectively, is that
respectively.
Lemma 3
([27]). The digamma function satisfies the inequality
where γ is the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
Lemma 4
([28]). Let The following inclusion holds true:
where . In addition, the value of υ is the best possible.
Lemma 5
([29]). For and then the following inclusion holds true:
Lemma 6
([29]). If a function and is not of the form
for and for then each of the following statements holds true:
- (i).
- If , then
- (ii).
- If , then there exist such that
3. Starlikeness and Convexity of the Normalized Form of the Miller-Ross Function
Our first main result in this section reads as follows.
Theorem 1.
Let If
then , where
Proof.
For we obtain
Hence, by using the above inequality, we get
and consequently, we infer
Now, we apply Lemma 1 for with
and we establish that
Hence, we get
This completes the proof of Theorem 1. □
Example 1.
The function belongs to the class in where
Theorem 2.
Let and If
then , where
Proof.
Let A straightforward computation yields
We define the sequence by
Therefore, for and we have
By this observation and with the help of (9), we obtain
Since under the given hypothesis and in view of the above inequality, we establish that
This in turn implies that
Now, we set in Lemma 1 with
We obtain
which implies that
Hence, the desired result would follow readily. □
Example 2.
The function belongs to the class in where
Theorem 3.
Let such that . If the inequality
holds, then
Proof.
According to Lemma 2, we need only to prove that
where
According to the estimate ([31], Lemma 7)
we get
This sum is bounded above by if and only if (14) holds. Thus, the proof is complete. □
Example 3.
The function belongs to the class See Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Image of the open unit disk under the function .
Theorem 4.
Let such that . If the inequality
holds, then
Proof.
In view of Lemma 2, we need only show that
Again, by virtue of (15), we have
Then, the above inequality is bounded by if the inequality (16) holds. This completes the proof of Theorem 4. □
Example 4.
The function belongs to the class in See Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Image of the open unit disk under the function .
At the end of this section, we present sufficient conditions imposed on the parameters for which the function defined by (3) belongs to the class
Theorem 5.
Assume that , , and . If the conditions
- (i).
- ,
- (ii).
- hold, then the function belongs to the class in
Proof.
In order to establish the required result, it suffices to prove that
where the function is defined by (2). By using the fact that
and (3), we establish that
Straightforward computations show that
where
Now, we consider the function defined by
Logarithmic differentiation yields
where is given by
From Lemma 3, we obtain
This leads to
Since and is a decreasing function on under the given hypothesis (i), for . This in turn implies that is a decreasing sequence. From Equation (18), for it follows that
Moreover, for , we obtain
where the sequence is defined by
It is worth mentioning that
The above relation implies that the sequence is decreasing as the product of two positive, decreasing sequences. This fact, combining with (23), gives
Finally, the condition (ii) and the above inequality helps us to establish the desired result. □
4. Hardy Space of the Normalized Form of the Miller-Ross Function
In the first main result in this section, we present some immediate applications of convexity and univalence involving the normalized form of the Miller-Ross function associated with the Hardy space of analytic functions.
Theorem 6.
Under the assumptions of Theorem 4, the following assertions hold true:
- (i).
- If , then
- (ii).
- If , then
Proof.
By using the definition of the Gauss hypergeometric function as
where stands for the Pochhammer symbol, we deduce that
where is any real number and . In addition, we have
Theorem 7.
Assume that and Also, suppose that the inequality
holds, then
Proof.
It is sufficient to show that for all where
Straightforward calculations would yield
Hence, by combining the above inequality with the relation
we establish that
under the given conditions. Therefore, the proof is complete. □
Theorem 8.
Let . If , then
Proof.
The assumption that follows from the fact that . We set
Using the definition of convolution, we obtain
From Theorem 7, it follows that
Thus, by applying Lemma 4, we get . Moreover, since in , this implies that
Consequently, for , we have , and for . Hence, . In addition, we observe that
Now, by using a result from MacGregor on the coefficients for the class , and the inequality (28), we obtain
We observe that the series given above converges absolutely in , under the given condition. On the other hand, by using the fact that [23], if , then the function is continuous in . Finally, since is a compact set, then the function is bounded. This completes the proof of the theorem. □
Theorem 9.
Suppose that the hypothesis of the above theorem is satisfied. Suppose that the function is of the form (1) and in the class for a fixed then where
Proof.
Since , this implies that . Now, we consider the function g defined by
Therefore, we get
From Theorem 7, it follows that . Moreover, by using Lemma 5, we deduce that , where . This in turn implies that . □
5. Conclusions
In the present paper, we have derived some new geometric properties for the normalized form of the Miller-Ross function, including strongly starlikeness, strongly convexity, starlikeness, convexity, and pre-starlikeness inside the unit disk. Moreover, as an application, we have established sufficient conditions so that this function belongs to the Hardy spaces and Furthermore, we have determined some conditions for which the function belongs to the class . We have also successfully determined conditions on the parameters for which a function with implies that the convolution product belongs to the spaces and
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, M.A., M.R., A.A. and K.M.; Methodology, M.A. and M.R.; Software, M.A. and A.A.; Validation, A.A.; Investigation, A.A.; Writing—original draft, M.R.; Writing—review & editing, K.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
The original contributions presented in this study are included in the article. Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
Acknowledgments
The authors extend their appreciation to the Scientific Research at Northern Border University, Arar, KSA for funding this research work through the project number ‘NBU-FPEJ-2025-970-01’.
Conflicts of Interest
The author declare no conflicts of interest.
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