1. Introduction and Problem Formation
We start with the historical development of geometric classes, focusing on the class of spirallike functions. First, we consider the well-known class
of functions
f that are analytic and univalent in the unit disk
, and that satisfy the normalization condition
. The class
, commonly known as starlike of order
, consists of functions
that fulfill the following characterization:
The inequality above is associated with the right half-plane. Rønning [
1] defined class
, which is related to a parabolic region. A function
f belongs to
if it satisfies the following condition:
The class
is further generalised in two different ways. In [
2], it is described that
,
if
It is shown that the Equation (
3) also defines a parabola with its vertex at
. As the value of
increases, the parabola becomes narrower, and it degenerates when
. For
, it corresponds to the previous class
, and notably,
for
. However, when
, the class includes non-univalent functions.
The second generalization given in [
3] stated that
when
for
, where
In this case,
if and only if
We refer to [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5] for more details and related properties of the class,
and
.
The concept of spirallikeness is the main topic of this article. The function
can be called spirallike if
for some
. Spirallike functions are essential for analyzing the rotations and symmetries of analytic functions, as they spiral outward from the origin in a controlled manner.
The function is considered convex spirallike if is spirallike. A function is termed uniformly -spirallike if the image of every circular arc centred at and lying in the region is -spirallike with respect to . The collection of all uniformly -spirallike functions is denoted as .
Similarly, a function
is classified as a uniformly convex
-spiral if the image of every circular arc
with the centre
lying in
is convex
-spirallike. The class of all uniformly convex
-spiral functions is referred to as
. These concepts are studied in [
6], and the following analytic characterization for functions
f in
and
are established:
In addition to the analytic characterization mentioned above, another one-variable characterization for these classes is provided in [
6] as follows:
The class of functions
, where
, is a subclass of the spirallike functions, and we denote this by
. In fact, the function
is in
if and only if
This condition is equivalent to
It is also explained in [
6] that the condition (
9) is equivalent to state that
lies in the parabolic region
For
, the functions in the class
are
-spirallike of order
due to the fact
. For
, the classes,
and
respectively reduce to the classes
and
introduced and studied by Ronning [
1,
2].
In line with the work in [
2], Selvaraj and Geeth [
7] generalized the class
as
.
Definition 1 ([
7])
. A function is in if satisfies the analytic characterization The class
, as outlined in Definition 1, serves as the cornerstone of this study. To build upon this foundation, we will now explore the radius problem related to spirallike functions. Specifically, we define the
-radius of a function
as a real number
An entire function is a function that is holomorphic everywhere in the complex plane
. These functions are fundamental in complex analysis and find applications in differential equations, number theory, and mathematical physics [
8,
9]. Every entire function
has a globally convergent Taylor series expansion as follows:
Since the radius of convergence is infinite, entire functions are completely characterized by their Taylor series [
10].
The growth of an entire function is classified by its order
defined as
where
[
11]. For more precise classification, the type
is defined as follows when
:
The Weierstrass factorization theorem states that an entire function with prescribed zeros
can be expressed as an infinite product as follows:
where
A well-known example is the representation of the sine function [
10] in terms of its product form as follows:
The Laguerre–Pólya class consists of entire functions that are limits of polynomials with only real zeros as follows:
These functions play a role in stability analysis and the Riemann hypothesis [
8,
9].
The infinite product representation of entire functions plays a significant role in the study of various subclasses of univalent functions; for example, see [
12,
13] and the references therein. In this study, we examine three subclasses of
, each defined by a parameter
. These subclasses are categorised based on their infinite factorization involving zeros and are denoted as
,
, and
. The analytical representation of these classes is as follows:
In this context,
is a positive real function of
. The sequences
,
, and
, respectively, represent the
n-th zeros of the functions
,
, and
. The nature of these zeros varies with respect to
, such that each of the infinite products mentioned converges uniformly on every compact subset of
. These subclasses are introduced and studied in [
13] to determine the radius of
k-parabolic starlikeness. Several examples provided to demonstrate that the classes
,
, and
are indeed non-empty. In this study we are going to answer the following problem.
Problem 1. Find the -radius of functions for , .
The following result proved in [
14] is useful for this study.
Lemma 1 ([
14])
. If , and , thenConsequently, it follows thatand In our study, we need the digamma function. The digamma function
is defined as the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function
as follows:
where
is the well-known gamma function.
The digamma function can be represented as follows:
Series expansion (for
):
where
is the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
For positive integers
n, the digamma function is directly related to the harmonic number as follows:
For a detailed overview of digamma functions, see [
15].
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: In
Section 2, we determine the
-radius for the functions
,
, and
. In
Section 3, we present several examples of special functions that belong to the classes
,
, and
. We calculate the
-radius for various well-known special functions, using the results from
Section 2, and we also compute the numerical values with fixed parameters.
3. Application to Special Functions
In this section, we will provide several examples of special functions that are members of the classes , , and , and thus satisfy the results proved in the earlier sections.
3.1. Functions Involving sin Functions
For
, consider the function
Example 1. The normalised function with zeros , , and .
A calculation yields that
Further computation gives us
From Theorem 1, it follows that the
-radius of
is
, where
is the unique solution of
in
. To validate the existence of a unique solution for (
42), we tabulate below a few cases considering fixed
, and
. Due to the symmetric nature of the cosine function, it is sufficient to consider
in the interval
. For a specific choice of
and
,
Table 1 presents the
-radius of
when for
Now when
,
holds when
. We present the
radius of
in
Table 2.
3.2. Functions Involving Gamma Function
Example 2. The function with zeros .
Notably, this example covers a wide range of functions involving sine or cosine. Specifically, when , the resulting function involves cosine, whereas for , the function involves sine.
Next, by computing the derivative
for
, we obtain
Here,
is the digamma function defined in (
26). Further calculations yield
Since the function
belongs to the class
, Theorem 1 allows us to determine the radius explicitly as the unique root of the equation
Table 3 and
Table 4 display the computed radius for the cases
and
within the interval
, provided
when
.
For our next example involving the gamma function, consider the function
Example 3. The function in the class with positive zeros .
Using the logarithmic differentiation of (
45) along with further calculations, we obtain
where
is the digamma function defined in (
26). By applying Theorem 1, the equation
has a unique root in the interval
, provided that
. This result is demonstrated in
Table 5,
Table 6, and
Table 7, respectively, for
.
3.3. Functions Associated with the Normalized Bessel Functions
The positive zeros
of the well-known classical Bessel function
follow the increasing order
for
. Furthermore, the Bessel function can also be represented by
For more details about the classical Bessel functions, see [
16].
A logarithmic differentiation of (
47) yields
Then, the following three normalization can be obtained from (
47):
which follows the below example for
,
, and
.
Example 4 (The normalized Bessel function). Denote as the n-th zero of the Bessel functions . Then,
- (i)
with ;
- (ii)
with ;
- (iii)
with and .
The logarithmic differentiation of
,
yields
Applying the above three relations to Theorem 1 yields the following result.
Theorem 2. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then,
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin .
Next, from Theorem 2, we are going to present a few numerical examples of the -radius of , for fixed , and .
We note here that for
,
and for
, we have
This implies the following:
Corollary 1. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then, the -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . We further investigate the numerical values of the radius for specific values of
and
. We discuss four cases, namely by taking
and the corresponding
. The outcome is presented in
Table 8.
The next corollary is obtained by taking on in Theorem 2.
Corollary 2. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then, the -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . Similar to the special cases of Corollary 1, we will present the
-radius of
for the specific
and
in
Table 9.
The final corollary is derived by setting in from Theorem 2.
Corollary 3. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then, the -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . As earlier, the special case of Corollary 3 is presented in
Table 10.
3.4. Examples Involving Derivatives of Bessel Functions
For the next example, consider the function
This function was first introduced in [
17], where its zeros were analyzed in detail. Furthermore, a recent study [
18], investigated the radius of uniformly convex
-spirallikeness of
. From the relation between Bessel function
and
, the latter can be represented as follows
where
. When
and
or
and
, the zeros of
are real for
, where
presents the largest real root of
. Moreover, in this case, the function
can be written as follows [
18].
where
is the
nth positive zero of
. For further details about the function
and its zeros, refer to [
18] and the references therein. In the next example, we present three normalizations of
to include it in the classes
,
, which were introduced in [
18].
Example 5. For , where presents the largest real root of , define
- (i)
with ;
- (ii)
with ;
- (iii)
with .
A direct application of Theorem 1, combined with the relationships between and for , leads to the following result:
Theorem 3. Let and such that . For , where is the largest real root of , the following statements are true:
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin ; - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin ; - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin .
In the following example, we find the -radius for the functions when , considering different values of that satisfy either and or and .
Example 6. When , the function can be expressed in terms of sine and cosine functions. Similarly, the associated functions defined here can also be represented in terms of trigonometric functions, in particular, Based on Theorem 3, the
-radius of the functions
is given by the smallest positive root of the corresponding equations within the interval
, for
and
for the remaining functions, where,
is the first positive zero of
. Numerical calculations of the values of
are presented in
Table 11.
Remark 2. - 1.
When the condition is not satisfied, the roots either become negative or approach values close to zero, as shown in Table 6 and Table 7. This behavior aligns with the theoretical implications of Remark 1, since the function is negative when . Consequently, the radius loses its meaningful interpretation in such cases, reinforcing the necessity of the given condition. - 2.
For a fixed ν, the radius decreases as approaches zero, demonstrating its strong dependence on this parameter. Even small variations in α and σ can lead to noticeable changes in the radius.
3.5. Functions Associated with the Normalized Struve Functions
The Struve function, denoted by
, is a special function that is a solution of the non-homogeneous Bessel differential equations
If
denotes the
nth positive zero of
, then (see [
19]) for
, the function
can be expressed as
It is noteworthy that
for
. For further details, see [
19,
20].
From Equation (
55), we can identify the following three normalized forms of the Struve functions:
Furthermore, this representation leads to
Example 7. For ,
- (i)
with ;
- (ii)
with ;
- (iii)
with and .
Theorem 4. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then,
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin .
For
, it follows that
Furthermore, for
, we have
These, together with Theorem 4, lead to the following two corollaries:
Corollary 4. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then,
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (iv)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (v)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (vi)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin .
3.6. Functions Associated with Wright Functions
Wright [
21] introduced the following function related to the asymptotic theory of partitions:
for
and
. The Wright function is valid for
and is an entire function of
z in this region. For more details, see [
21,
22]. Its geometric properties are discussed in [
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30]. We denote the
nth positive zero of
by
, and the
nth positive zero of
, where
by
.
For
and
, it has been proven in [
24] that the function
possesses infinitely many real zeros. Additionally, it has the Weierstrass decomposition given by
The product converges uniformly on a compact subset of the complex plane. The positive zeros of
interlace with the zeros of
, resulting in the following inequalities:
We have the following example related to .
Example 8 (The normalized Wright function)
. For , denote as the n-th zero of the function . Then, We will now outline the radius problem for the Wright function.
Theorem 5. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Then,
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin .
The Wright function generalizes a transformation of the classical Bessel function of the first kind of
. This relationship can be expressed as follows:
We now have the following special cases of Theorem 5:
Corollary 5. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Let . Then,
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin . - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equationin .
We note that Corollary 5 can be simplified further as a radius problem involving trigonometric functions by selecting and , for example.
- 1.
Corollary 5(i) leads to -radius of and .
- 2.
Corollary 5(ii) leads to -radius of and .
- 3.
Corollary 5(iii) leads to -radius of and .
Therefore, the careful selection of , , , and leads to various special cases, and numerical values of the -radius can be obtained, as demonstrated in earlier examples. We omit those calculation for this example.
3.7. Functions Involving q-Bessel Functions
This section addresses the radius problem for Jackson and Hahn–Exton
q-Bessel functions,
and
. For
,
, and
, both functions are defined by series expansions as follows:
Here, we define the
q-Pochhammer symbol as follows:
For a fixed z and as q approaches 1, the q-Bessel functions relate to the classical Bessel function as follows: and .
The
q-extension of Bessel functions has been explored by several authors, notably, [
31,
32,
33,
34,
35,
36], among others. Additionally, the geometric properties of
q-Bessel functions have been discussed in [
13,
37,
38,
39,
40].
Now, let us recall the Hadamard factorization for the normalized
q-Bessel functions.
where
Lemma 2 ([
37]).
For , the functions and are entire functions of order zero and pose the Hadamard factorization for the form where and represent the positive zeros of the functions and , respectively. Now, we are ready to set our example for the , , and classes involving q-Bessel functions.
Example 9. For , , denote as the n-th zero of the q-Bessel functions . Then, Example 10. For , , denote as the n-th zero of the q-Bessel functions . Then, Theorem 6. Suppose that for some and , the inequality holds. Let . Then, for , we have following results
- (i)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equation - (ii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equation - (iii)
The -radius of is the smallest positive root of the equation
3.8. Outline of Few More Examples
The aforementioned examples make it clear that those functions have an infinite product representation, which can be further normalized to include them in class , where . Theorem 1 can therefore be used to determine the -radius for those functions. We will provide a few more functions in this section of the article without providing the radius outcomes because the statements are similar to those in the other instances above.
- (I)
Ramanujan-type entire function: The Ramanujan entire function and the Stieltjes–Wigert polynomial, respectively (see [
41]), denoted by
and
, are defined by power series as
A Ramanujan-type entire function was defined and examined by Ismail and Zhang in [
42], as follows:
where
,
,
, and
It can be observed that
generalizes both
and
.
For
,
, and
, Zhang [
43] proved that
has an infinite number of negative zeros, and that the growth order of the entire function
is zero for
.
In order to establish the inclusion relation of
in the class
,
, we need the following lemma:
Lemma 3 ([
44])
. If , , and , then the functionhas infinitely many zeros, all of which are positive. Denoting by the n-th positive zero of , we obtain the Weierstrassian decomposition as follows:which is valid, and this product is uniformly convergent on compact subsets of the complex plane.Moreover, if we denote by the n-th positive zero of , wherethen, the positive zeros of are interlaced with those of . In other words, the zeros satisfy the following chain of inequalities: Now, by taking the normalization of the function
, we have the following example:
Example 11. For , , and , - (II)
Cross product of the Bessel and modified functions: It is shown in [
45] that for
and
, the cross product of the classical Bessel and modified Bessel function
exhibit the power series
and Hadamard factorization
Here,
represents the
n-th positive zero of the function
. It is also shown that the zeros
satisfy the interlacing inequalities
for
and
, where
stands for the
n-th positive zero of the Bessel function
. Clearly,
is not normalized as per our requirements. However, there are three normalized forms given in [
12]. We modified two of them to make them suitable for our cases and we present the following example:
Example 12. For , consider the following normalizationsIt can be observed that , , and . Thus, the
-radius for
,
, and
can be determined using Theorem 1.
- (III)
Mittag-Leffler functions: Mittag-Leffler [
46] introduced the following function:
which is generalized by Wiman [
47] by adding a parameter
and defined as
In 1971, Prabhakar [
48] introduced the following generalization:
where
. The function
is known as the generalized Mittag-Leffler function.
The notion of the nature of the zeros of
is studied in [
49], and it described by the following lemma.
Lemma 4 ([
49])
. Let there exist three transformations mapping the set into itself as follows:Define the setandDenote by the least set containing and the invariant with respect to and C. Then, the set can be represented bywhere the union has taken over all and over all -tuplesof non-negative integers. Then, for , all zeros of are negative and simple. It is further established that if
and
, then all zeros of
are real and negative. From [
50], we see that if
and
, then the function
has infinitely many zeros, which are all real and can be represented as follows:
where
is the
n-th positive zero of
. Now, we finally have three normalizations of
which are members of
.
Example 13. For and ,
4. Conclusions
In this article, we focus on three classes of functions represented by a convergent infinite product of factors involving the positive zeros of the function. Through the examples provided, we demonstrate that functions with a Hadamard factorization can belong to the classes , . In such cases, the -radius can be deduced from Theorem 1.
It is worth noting that most of the examples, except Example 2 and Example 3, are not entirely new. These normalized functions have been explored in previous studies in different contexts, such as the radius of starlikeness, convexity, and parabolic starlikeness. However, the present study focuses specifically on the radius of spirallikeness, with particular emphasis on the spirallikeness of order .
Additionally, functions such as the Lommel, Dini, q-Struve-Bessel, and products of the Bessel and modified Bessel functions are within the scope of this study. However, since the nature of the radius problem closely resembles the other examples presented, they have not been explicitly included in the discussion.