1. Introduction
Throughout this paper, we let 
 and 
 to denote the respective sets of complex numbers and natural numbers. Furthermore, 
 will be used to denote the usual Pochhammer symbol and 
, a unit disc. Denote by 
 the class of analytic function, 
 where 
, 
 We represent by 
, the class of functions in 
 which are univalent in 
.
Let  signify the category of functions that are analytic in  with  and  for all  in .
An analytic function 
 is subordinate to an analytic function 
 written 
(≺ denotes the subordination), provided that there is an analytic function 
 defined on 
 with 
 and 
 sustaining 
 Starlike and convex functions, the well-known geometrically defined subclasses of 
, have the following respective analytic characterizations 
 and are denoted by 
 and 
, respectively. Different subclasses of 
 and 
 can be obtained by replacing the respective conditions in (
1) with the following subordination condition 
 and 
 where 
. By choosing 
 to map the unit disc on to some specific regions like parabolas, cardioid, lemniscate of Bernoulli, and booth lemniscate in the right-half of the complex plane, various interesting subclasses of starlike and convex functions can be obtained. Here, we will list only a few of those studies, which are well known among the researchers in this field.
- Cho et al. [ 1- ] and Mendiratta et al. [ 2- ] studied various geometric properties of starlike functions by replacing  -  in ( 2- ) with  -  and  - , respectively. 
- Fixing  -  in ( 2- ), Sharma et al. [ 3- ] studied a class of starlike function associated with petal-shaped domain, whereas Wani and Swaminathan [ 4- ] fixed  -  which maps  -  onto the interior of the 2-cusped kidney-shaped region and discussed application to the general coefficient problem for some subclasses of  
- Fixing  -  in ( 2- ), Raina and Sokól [ 5- ] introduced a class of starlike functions which are bounded by the lemniscate of Bernoulli in the right-half plane. 
For detailed study of various subclasses of 
 involving a conic region, refer to [
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17].
The Mittag–Leffler function is a special transcendental function that has gained attention due to its application in time-fractional differential equations and boundary value problems. We will not go into applications or their mathematical properties here. We referred the survey-cum-expository papers of Srivastava [
18,
19,
20,
21] for this study and found that they supplied enough material to analyze this duality theory. However, see Srivastava et al. [
22,
23,
24,
25,
26] for thorough study on the Mittag–Leffler function. Srivastava et al. [
24] introduced the following multi-index Mittag–Leffler functions as a kernel of specific fractional-calculus operators and as given below:
  A special case of the multi-index Mittag–Leffler function defined by (
4), when 
 corresponding to the Srivastava–Tomovski generalization of the Mittag–Leffler function [
25], is given by 
 Note that by fixing the parameters the Mittag–Leffler function 
, this includes various well-known elementary functions and some special functions. For example, 
  where error function 
 and the complementary error function 
 are defined by the formula 
The Mittag–Leffler function has been extensively used in areas such as fluid flow, electric networks, stochastic processes, and statistical distribution theory. Notably, it is used in almost all fractional dynamical systems. Using (
5), Cang and Liu [
27] defined an operator, which, explicitly for 
, is given by 
We will now provide a brief overview of multiplicative calculus, a type of non-Newtonian calculus. The importance of a calculus known as multiplicative calculus was highlighted by Bashirov, Kurpinar, and Özyapıin ([
28] [pg. 37]) (also see [
29,
30,
31]). Although it is not as versatile as classical calculus in terms of applications, it is nevertheless very interesting and a useful mathematical tool for economics and finance. For a positive real valued function 
, the multiplicative derivative denoted by 
 is defined as 
 where 
 is the classical derivative. In a similar way, the 
th ∗derivative of 
 which is denoted by 
 for 
 with 
 can be defined by 
, provided that the 
th derivative of 
 at 
x exists.
Assume that 
 is a nowhere-vanishing differentiable complex-valued function on an open connected set 
 of the complex plane. Select a sufficiently small neighborhood 
 of the point 
 such that the branches of 
 on 
 exist in the form of the composition of the respective branches of 
 and the restriction of 
 to 
, and the log-differentiation formula is valid for 
 on 
. The ∗-derivative of 
 at 
 by 
  2. Definitions, Preliminaries and Results
Motivated by the definition of ∗-derivative, we let 
 to denote the class of functions satisfying the conditions 
 where 
, and 
 has a series expansion of the form 
Remark 1. Here, we will discuss the purpose and limitations of the class .
- The multiplicative derivative is defined for , which does not vanish in the chosen domain, but the general existing framework in  is that it vanishes at . Hence, instead of using the multiplicative derivative directly, we have replaced  in the definition of a starlike function with . 
- Alternatively, we could have defined  asHowever, we choose to keep the differential characterization as in (7), since it had some good geometrical implications. 
- It is well-known that functions  satisfying the condition  are univalent in . However, the functions in  need not be univalent in . 
- Since the multiplicative derivatives involves differential characterization in the exponent of an exponential, establishing the coefficient estimates (other than initial coefficients) of the class  are computationally tedious. In fact, the sharp bounds of  are unobtainable with the existing tools and techniques. 
 Example 1. The class  is non-empty. Let , . Clearly,  is univalent in  and . Now,Wecan see that the function  maps the unit disc onto a close to cardioid shaped region in the right-half plane (see Figure 1). Figure 1 shows the respective 3D view (Figure 1a) and 2D view (Figure 1b) of the mapping of unit disc under the mapping . Hence, .  In the following example, we will show that functions which are starlike need not be in .
Example 2. Let , . The function is well known for mapping the unit disc onto a cardioid with cusp on the left-hand side. Further, the function is convex with respect to the point 1. Now,We can see that the function maps the unit disc onto a region as shown in Figure 2a. Figure 2a illustrates that  does not belong to , even though , for ψ defined as in (8).  Remark 2. Notice that  is not a subclass nor a generalization of the class . For example, the function  is in  but does not belong to  (see Figure 2b).  Motivated by the definition of the operator (
6), Breaz et al. [
32] defined the following operator 
 by 
 Remark 3. Note that  and . The operator  includes many operators previously studied by various authors as its special cases. We list some of the special cases:
- . The operator  is the differential operator introduced and studied by Al-Oboudi [33]. 
- , the operator  is the well-known Sălăgean operator. 
- Obviously, fixing  and  in (9), then  reduces to  an operator defined and studied by Cang and Liu [27]. 
For a latest study of differential operators involving the Mittag–Leffler function, refer to Yassen and Attiya [34].  Motivated by the definition of , we now introduce and study a new class of analytic functions which is defined as follows.
Definition 1. Let  denote the class of functions satisfying the conditionswhere , , and  is defined as in (8).  Remark 4. Here, we list some special cases of :
- Letting ,  and  in Definition 1, then the class  reduces tothe class  is the multiplicative analogue of the well-known class of starlike functions. 
- Letting  and  in Definition 1, then the class  given bythe class  is a new class motivated by the relationship between starlike and convex function. 
The  does not have any well-known classes that describe it as a special case. Nonetheless, we will attempt to determine its connection to certain analytic function subclasses that have already been studied by other authors.
 This paper is structured as follows. In 
Section 3, we will obtain the coefficient bounds of 
, 
 and solve the Fekete-Szegő problem for the defined function class 
. Applications of our main results pertaining to vertical domain are presented as corollaries. 
Section 4 is devoted to discuss the existence of an inverse function in the class 
 and obtain its coefficient estimates. Finally, 
Section 5 has been devoted to present the bounds of logarithmic coefficients and their corresponding Fekete-Szegő functionals.
Now, we will state the following lemma, which we will use it to find the coefficient bounds.
Lemma 1 ([
35])
. If , and ρ is complex number, then  and the result is sharp.   3. Initial Coefficients and Fekete-Szegő Inequality
We will begin the solution to the Fekete-Szegő problem for .
Theorem 1. If , then we haveand for all where  is given byThe inequality is sharp for each .  Proof.  As 
, by (
10) we have 
 Thus, let 
 be of the form 
 and defined by 
 On computation, the right-hand side of (
15) 
The left-hand side of (
15) will be of the form 
 From (
17) and (
16), we obtain 
 and 
 Equation (
11) can be obtained by applying the well-known result of 
 in (
18). Applying Lemma 1 together with inequality 
 in (
12), we obtain (
12).
Now, to prove the Fekete-Szegő inequality for the class 
, we consider 
  Using the triangle inequality and Lemma 1 in the above equality, we can obtain (
13). □
 Let  and  in Theorem 1, we have the following.
Corollary 1. Let  (see (7)). Then,and for a complex number ρ,  Letting  in Corollary 1, we get the following.
Corollary 2. Let  satisfy the conditionThen,and for a complex number ρ,  Remark 5. It is well-known that for , then  for  and the Fekete-Szegő for function in  is known to be , and ρ is a complex number. In comparison with Corollary 2, we can conclude that the  is neither a subclass nor generalization of the class .
 Letting  ( and  are real numbers such that ) in Corollary 1, we get the following.
Corollary 3. Let  satisfy the conditionThen,and for a complex number ρ,  Proof.  We note that the function 
 maps the open unit disk 
 onto a convex domain and is of the form 
 where 
, 
. We can obtain 
 and 
 Substituting the values of 
 and (
20) in Theorem 1, we obtain assertion of our corollary. □
   4. Coefficient Estimates of 
We let 
 to denote the class of functions univalent in 
. It is well known from Koebe 
-quarter theorem that every function 
 in 
 has an inverse 
, defined by 
 and 
, where 
The functions in  need not be univalent, but since  for all  and , there exists an inverse function in some small disk with a center at . Next, the result is valid only for the functions in  which are univalent.
Theorem 2. Let  and let  be the inverse of φ defined bythenandwhere ,  is defined as in (14). Furthermore, for all where . The inequality is sharp for each .  Proof.  From 
 and (
21), we have 
 The estimate for 
 follows immediately from (
18). Letting 
 in (
13), we obtain the estimate 
. To find the Fekete-Szegő inequality for the inverse function, consider 
 Changing 
 in (
13), we obtain the desired result. □
   5. Logarithmic Coefficients for Functions Belonging to 
Inspired by recent works like [
36,
37,
38], in this section we determine the coefficient bounds and Fekete-Szegő problem associated with the logarithmic function.
If the function 
 is analytic in 
, such that 
 for all 
, then the well-known logarithmic coefficients 
, 
, of 
 are given by 
For a function 
, the left-hand side of the subordination of Definition 1 should be an analytic function in 
, hence 
 for all 
. Therefore, for all functions 
, the relation (
22) is well defined.
Theorem 3. If , with the logarithmic coefficients given by (22), thenwith For , we havewhere ,  is defined as in (14).  Proof.  From 
 and equating the first two coefficients of relation (
22), we get 
 Using (
18) and (
19), we obtain 
 Using (
11), it follows that 
 and fixing 
 in (
13), we get 
 where 
 is given by (
23). To find estimate (
24), consider 
				Changing 
 in (
13) and simplifying, we obtain the desired result. □
   6. Conclusions
Under varying selections of the function  and parameters in the Definition 1, the function class  reduces to classes with good geometrical implications but not to well-known classes like spiral-like, starlike, and convex. So our main results have lots of applications; here, we restricted ourselves to pointing out only a few of them.
Given the fact that , computing the estimates involving long differential characterization, which is in the exponent of an exponential, is cumbersome. Hence, extending this study to the class of convex functions would be very complicated. Further, from the coefficient estimates (see Theorem 1), it is very clear that functions in  are not univalent. Now, the question arises: what should be the radius of the disc so that functions in  are univalent?
   
  
    Author Contributions
Conceptualization, K.R.K. and G.M.; methodology, K.R.K. and G.M.; software, K.R.K. and G.M.; validation, K.R.K. and G.M.; formal analysis, K.R.K. and G.M.; investigation, K.R.K. and G.M.; resources, K.R.K. and G.M.; data curation, K.R.K. and G.M.; writing—original draft preparation, K.R.K. and G.M.; writing—review and editing, K.R.K. and G.M.; visualization, K.R.K. and G.M.; supervision, G.M.; project administration, G.M.; funding acquisition to pay for the APC. and K.R.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created or analyzed in this study.
Acknowledgments
Authors thank the Editor and all the reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions, which helped us remove the mistakes and also led to improvement in the presentation of the results.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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