Abstract
In this paper, we discuss two well-known coefficient functionals and . The first one is called the Hankel determinant of order 2. The second one is a special case of Zalcman functional. We consider them for functions in the class of analytic functions with real coefficients which satisfy the condition for z in the unit disk . It is known that all coefficients of are bounded by 1. We find the upper bound of and the bound of . We also consider a few subclasses of and we estimate the above mentioned functionals. In our research two different methods are applied. The first method connects the coefficients of a function in a given class with coefficients of a corresponding Schwarz function or a function with positive real part. The second method is based on the theorem of formulated by Szapiel. According to this theorem, we can point out the extremal functions in this problem, that is, functions for which equalities in the estimates hold. The obtained estimates significantly extend the results previously established for the discussed classes. They allow to compare the behavior of the coefficient functionals considered in the case of real coefficients and arbitrary coefficients.
Keywords:
coefficient problems; analytic functions; Schwarz functions; starlike functions; functions convex in one direction MSC:
30C45; 30C50
1. Introduction
Let be the unit disk and denote the class of all functions f analytic in with the typical normalization . This means that the function has the following representation
Additionally, we denote by the class of those functions whose all coefficients are real.
In this paper we discuss two functionals
and
considered for functions of the form (1) in a given class .
Recently, these functionals have been widely discussed. The research mainly focused on estimating so called Hankel determinants. Pommerenke (see [1,2]) defined the k-th Hankel determinant for a function f of the form (1) and as
In a view of this definition, is the second Hankel determinant (more precisely, ).
The sharp bounds of for almost all important subclasses of the class of analytic univalent functions were found (see, for example, [3,4,5,6,7,8]). It is worth noting that we still do not know the exact bound of this expression for , nor for consisting of all close-to-convex functions (see [9]). On the other hand, finding the bounds, upper and lower, for classes of analytic functions with real coefficients is a much more complicated task. For this reason, only a few papers were devoted to solving this problem. Such result for univalent starlike functions was obtained by Kwon and Sim ([10]). Furthermore, similar problems for functions which are typically real were discussed in [11].
The functional is a special case of the so-called generalized Zalcman functional which was studied, among others, in [12,13]. The generalized version of this functional, that is, , was discussed in [14].
We start with considering (2) and (3) in the class of analytic functions given by (1) which satisfy the condition
It is known that all coefficients of are real and bounded by 1.
The class contains three well-known, important subclasses of univalent functions: of convex functions, of starlike functions of order , of functions that are convex in the direction of the imaginary axis. Two other classes and consisting of functions defined by specific Riemann-Stieltjes integrals are also included in . The precise definitions of these classes will be given in Section 3. In this section we show the partial ordering of the mentioned above subclasses of with respect to the relation of inclusion. Clearly, the coefficients of functions in each subset of are bounded by 1. What is interesting, this number cannot be improved. Finding the estimates of and gives additional information about the richness of these classes (compare [15]).
All functions in and in other classes discussed in this paper have real coefficients. For this reason, it is interesting to find not only the bounds of moduli of (2) and (3), but also their upper and lower bounds. On the other hand, it is clear that if the following property
holds for all functions f in a given class A, then
The same property is not true for the functional .
2. Estimates for the Class
The coefficients of can be expressed in terms of the coefficients of a relative function p in the class or in terms of the coefficients of a relative function in the class . Recall that and denote the class of functions with positive real part and the class of functions such that and .
For this reason, we have
and
To obtain our results we need the estimates for initial coefficients of Schwarz functions.
Lemma 1
If, additionally, has real coefficients, we have the following fact.
Corollary 1.
If is of the form (8), then
We also need the generalized Livingstone result obtained by Hayami and Owa.
Lemma 2
The following sharp result was also proved by Hayami and Owa.
Theorem 1
([17]).If , then
Equality holds for .
Observe that for we have , which means that
Now, we shall derive an upper bound of this functional for .
Theorem 2.
If , then
Proof.
Applying (9) and Corollary 1,
After simple calculation,
□
The estimate of for is also easy to obtain. It is enough to apply (10) and Lemma 2.
Theorem 3.
If , then
Equality holds for .
3. Other Classes with Coefficients Bounded by 1
We know a few other subclasses of consisting of functions with real coefficients bounded by 1: the class of convex functions, the class of starlike functions of order , and the class of functions that are convex in the direction of the imaginary axis. The same property also holds for and defined as follows
and
where is the set of probability measures on the interval .
For convenience of the reader, let us recall that an analytic and normalized function belongs to and when the following conditions are satisfied, respectively
and
The class is related to the class of typically real functions. Namely, for all there is
The classes defined above can be ordered in the following chains of inclusions:
The first inclusion in the first chain is the famous theorem of Marx-Strohhäcker ([18]). In [19] Hallenbeck proved that . In fact, he proved that is a closed convex hull fo . Robertson proved in [20] that if then , or, in other words, .
The inclusion is obvious. The proof of the relation can be found in [21].
To prove the third chain of inclusions, observe that . Indeed, , so the closed convex hull of the set is included in the closed convex hull of equal to . The successive inclusions have already been shown.
Moreover,
The first statement follows from the fact that , as a convex combination of the functions and , belongs to , but it does not belong to . To show the second statement, it is enough to consider . Since
this function is in . From the formula for the coefficients of functions in it follows that for each , but for . Consequently, does not belong to .
It is easy to check that
It is clear that for there is . Consequently, . On the other hand, for the function we have . Hence, and . The image set coincides with the domain lying between two branches of the hyperbola . This means that is not in .
From the argument given above and Theorem 1 we obtain
Corollary 2.
Let A denote one of the classes: , and and let . Then
Equality holds for .
In our research two different methods are applied. The first method connects the coefficients of a function in a given class with coefficients with a corresponding Schwarz function or a function with positive real part. The second method is based on the Szapiel theorem. According to this theorem, we can point out the extremal functions in this problem, that is, functions for which equalities in the estimates hold.
4. Estimates for and
We know that the estimate given in Corollary 2 is true but not sharp for and , because the function does not belong to either of them. In [5] it was shown that the sharp bound of in is 1/8 and the extremal function is
On the other hand, in (see [3]) and the extremal function is
Let and be given by (1) and (8), respectively. From the correspondence between and , that is,
we obtain
Consequently,
Theorem 4.
If , then
- 1.
- ,
- 2.
- .
Proof.
Let .
I. By Lemma 1,
The critical points of are the solutions of the system
From this system we have
Hence, the critical points, satisfying the first two inequalities of Lemma 1, are as follows , and
Since ,
and
This means that .
II. From Lemma 1,
The points and are the only critical points of . For these points and . Moreover,
and
The relation in (6) and the above results give the declared bound. □
From the definition of the class we can represent a function f of this class as follows
Let f and be given by (1) and (8), respectively. Comparing the coefficients of both sides in
we obtain
Theorem 5.
If , then
- 1.
- ,
- 2.
- .
Proof.
Let .
I. By Lemma 1,
The critical points of are the solutions of the system
We consider only the points lying in the set
(compare, Lemma 1). Hence, we obtain the equation
The critical points are: and . For these points,
Moreover,
and
This means that .
II. From Lemma 1,
The point is the only critical point of and . Moreover,
and
The relation in (6) and the above results give the declared bound. □
5. Preliminary Results for , and
Let X be a compact Hausdorff space and . Szapiel in [22] proved the following theorem.
Theorem 6
([22], Thm.1.40). Let be continuous. Suppose that there exists a positive integer k, such that for each non-zero p in the number of solutions of any equation , is not greater than k. Then, for every such that belongs to the boundary of the convex hull of , the following statements are true:
1. if , then
(a)
or
(b) and ,
2. if , then
(a)
or
(b) and one of the points α, β belongs to .
In the above the symbol denotes the scalar product of vectors and , whereas the symbols and denote the set of probability measures on X and the cardinality of the support of , respectively.
Observe that the coefficients of a function f belonging to the classes , and can be expressed by
where is a polynomial of degree n.
Taking into account the fact that we estimate the functionals and , depending only on 3 coefficients of f, it is enough to consider the vectors , and . We can observe that
is a polynomial equation of degree 3. Therefore, the Equation (29) has at most 3 solutions.
In particular, for the classes , and , it is known that are the Legendre polynomials , the Chebyshev polynomials and the monomial , respectively.
For a given class , we denote by the region of variability of three succeeding coefficients of functions in A, that is, the set Therefore, is the closed convex hull of the curve
is the closed convex hull of the curve
and is the closed convex hull of the curve
According to Theorem 6, the boundary of the convex hulls of , are determined by atomic measures for which the support consists of 2 points at most with one of them being equal to −1 or 1. In this way, we have proved the following lemmas.
Lemma 3.
The boundary of consists of points that correspond to the following functions
or
Lemma 4.
The boundary of consists of points that correspond to the following functions
or
Lemma 5.
The boundary of consists of points that correspond to the following functions
or
6. Estimates for the Class , and
Theorem 7.
If , then
- 1.
- ,
- 2.
- .
The results are sharp.
Proof.
Function (30) has the Taylor series expansion
Therefore,
Similarly,
Hence,
It is easy to conclude that for function (31) we have and . For this reason, it is enough to discuss only the function given by (30).
I. The critical points of inside the set coincide with the solutions of the system
From the first equation we have . Putting it into the second one, we obtain only one critical point , and .
Now we need to verify the behavior of the function on the boundary of the set . We have
and
For there is .
Therefore, we conclude that for all . Taking into account (6), we obtain the same estimates of . The equality holds for the function (30) with and , so the extremal function has the form
Thus, the estimate is sharp.
II. Now, we shall derive the greatest value of for and . The critical points of inside the set coincide with the solutions of the system of equations
From the second equation we have . Combining it with the first equation we obtain , and .
If we examine the behavior of on the boundary of the set , we have ,
Therefore, we conclude that for all we have . The equality holds for function (30) with and . Thus, the estimate is sharp. □
Theorem 8.
If ,
- 1.
- ,
- 2.
- .
The results are sharp.
Proof.
Observe that the function given by (32) has the following Taylor series expansion
Let and . Using the same reasoning as in the proof of Theorem 7, we consider the function given by (32).
Notice that
where
Hence,
Similarly,
Hence,
I. Similarly, as in the proof of Theorem 7, we find that is the only critical point of inside the set . Therefore, .
Now, we need to study the behavior of on the boundary of the set . We have
and
For , there is .
Taking into account the previous reasoning, we obtain the desired estimation . The equality holds for function (32) with and , so we obtain the extremal function
Thus, the estimate is sharp.
II. It is easy to verify that is the only critical point of inside the set . Therefore, .
Analyzing the behavior of the function on the boundary of the set , we have
and
Hence, we conclude that for all . The equality holds for function (32) with and , so we obtain the extremal function
Thus, the estimate is sharp. □
For the function given by (34) we have
Therefore,
and
For there is , so
The latter attains the greatest value for . Hence, .
The equality holds for (34) with and , so for
Furthermore, observe that
Hence,
In this way we have proved the following theorem.
Theorem 9.
If , then
- 1.
- ,
- 2.
- .
The results are sharp.
7. Concluding Remarks
In this paper we derived the upper estimates of the functionals and for the functions in the subclasses of . In the paper two different methods were applied. In the first method we expressed the coefficients of a function in a given class by coefficients with a corresponding Schwarz function or a function with positive real part. The second method was based on the Szapiel theorem. This theorem allowed us to obtain the sharp bounds of the functionals (9) and (10) and to point out the extremal functions.
It is clear that if , then
and
The obtained results satisfy the above inequalities and coincide with the inclusions presented in Section 3.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, P.Z.; Formal analysis, P.Z., A.F. and M.J.; Supervision, P.Z.; Writing—original draft, A.F. and M.J. All authors contributed equally to this work. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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