Abstract
In this article, a new class of harmonic univalent functions, defined by the differential operator, is introduced. Some geometric properties, like, coefficient estimates, extreme points, convex combination and convolution (Hadamard product) are obtained.
1. Introduction
A continuous function is a complex-valued harmonic function in a complex domain if both and are real harmonic. In any simply connected domain , we can write , where and are analytic in . We call and are analytic part and co-analytic part of respectively. Clunie and Sheil-Small [1] observed that a necessary and sufficient condition for the harmonic functions to be locally univalent and sense-preserving in is that
Denote by the family of harmonic functions , which are univalent and sense-preserving in the open unit disc where and are analytic in and is normalized by Then for , we may express the analytic functions and as
Note that reduces to the class of normalized analytic univalent functions if the co-analytic part of its members equals to zero.
Also, denote by the subclass of consisting of all functions , where and are given by
In 1984 Clunie and Sheil-Small [1] investigated the class , as well as its geometric subclass and obtained some coefficient bounds. Many authors have studied the family of harmonic univalent function (see References [2,3,4,5,6,7]).
In 2016 Makinde [8] introduced the differential operator such that
where
and
Thus, it implies that is identically the same as when . Also, it reduced the first differential coefficient of the Salagean differential operator when
For given by Equation (1), Sharma and Ravindar [9] considered the differential operator which defined by Equation (3) of as
where
In this paper, motivated by study in [9], a new class of harmonic univalent functions in is introduced and studied. Furthermore, coefficient conditions, distortion bounds, extreme points, convex combination and radii of convexity for this class are obtained.
2. Main Results
2.1. The Class
Definition 1.
Letwhereandare given by Equation (1). Thenit satisfies
foranddefined by Equation (4)
Let be the subclass of , where
Remark 1.
The classreduces to the class[9], when
Here, we give a sufficient condition for a function to be in the class .
Theorem 1.
(1). If
where
then is harmonic univalent and sense-preserving in and
Proof.
Firstly, to show that is harmonic univalent in , suppose that , we have by inequality so that , then
Thus is a univalent function in .
Note that is sense-preserving in . This is because
According to the condition of Equation (5), we only need to show that if Equation (6) holds, then
where
Note that
Using the fact that if and only if it suffices to show that
Substituting for in , we obtain
Now, substituting for in , we obtain
Substituting for Equations (8) and (9) in the inequality we obtain
Therefore, we have
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The harmonic univalent function
where and , shows that the coefficient bound given by Equation (6) is sharp. Since
Now, we show that the condition of Equation (6) is also necessary for functions where and are given by Equation (6).
Theorem 2.
Letgiven by Equation (6). Thenif and only if the coefficient in condition of Equation (6) holds.
Proof.
We only need to prove the “only if” part of the theorem because of Then by Equation (5), we have
or, equivalently
We observe that the above-required condition of Equation (11) must behold for all values of If we choose to be real and , we get
If the condition (6) does not hold, then the numerator in Equation (12) is negative for sufficiently closed to 1. Hence there exist in for which the quotient in Equation (12) is negative, therefore there is a contradicts the required condition for □
2.2. Extreme Points
Here, we determine the extreme points of the closed convex hull of , denoted by
Theorem 3.
where
and
In particular the extreme points of are
Proof.
Suppose
Then
Therefore
Conversely, if Then
The required representation is obtained as
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2.3. Convex Combination
Here, we show that the class is closed under convex combination of its members.
Let the function be defined, for by
Theorem 4.
Let the functionsdefined by Equation (13) be in the class for every Then the functions defined by
are also in the class
Proof.
According to the definition of , we can write
Further, since are in for every, then by Theorem 2, we obtain
which is required coefficient condition. □
2.4. Convolution (Hadamard Product) Property
Here, we show that the class is closed under convolution.
The convolution of two harmonic functions
and
is defined as
Using Equations (12)–(14), we prove the following theorem.
Theorem 5.
For, letand. Then
Proof.
Let
be in the class and
be in .
Then the convolution is given by Equation (16), we want to show that the coefficients of satisfy the required condition given in Theorem 1.
For , we note that and Now consider convolution functions as follows:
Therefore . □
2.5. Integral Operator
Here, we examine the closure property of the class under the generalized Bernardi-Libera-Livingston integral operator (see References [10,11]) which is defined by,
Theorem 6.
Let. Then
Proof.
From definition of given by Equation (17), it follows that
where
Hence
Therefore, we have □
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft preparation, writing—review and editing, A.K.A.-k.; visualization and supervision, W.G.A.; project administration and supervision, S.S.A.
Funding
This research received no external funding
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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