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Ruscheweyh-type meromorphic harmonic functions
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2024, Article number: 132 (2024)
Abstract
In this paper, we study classes of meromorphic harmonic functions defined by Ruscheweyh derivatives. In addition to finding certain analytic criteria, we obtain radii of starlikeness and convexity, and some topological properties for the defined classes of functions. Some applications of these results are also given.
1 Introduction
A complex-valued function f is said to be harmonic in a domain \(D\subset \mathbb{C} \) if it has continuous second-order partial derivatives in D that satisfy the Laplace equation
If \(D={\mathbb{U}} ( r ) :={\{z\in \mathbb{C}: }0< \vert z \vert <{r\},}\) then we say that f is a meromorphic harmonic function in \({\mathbb{U}} ( r ) \). We denote by \(\mathcal{M}\) the class of all such function with the normalization \(f ( 0 ) =\infty \)
Let a function F be harmonic, orientation-preserving, and univalent in \({\mathbb{B}}:={\{z\in \mathbb{C}: } \vert {z} \vert >{1\}}\) with \(F(\infty )=\infty \). Then, there exists \(B\in {\mathbb{C}}\) and functions
such that
where \(\overline{F_{\overline{z}}}/F_{z}\) is analytic and bounded by 1 in \(\mathbb{E}\) (see, Hengartner and Schober [10]).
Let \(f\in \mathcal{M}\) be functions that are univalent and sense-preserving in \({\mathbb{U}}:={\mathbb{U}} ( 1 ) \). Since the composition of an analytic and harmonic function is the harmonic function, the function \(F=f\circ ( \frac{1}{z} ) \) is orientation-preserving, harmonic, and univalent in \({\mathbb{E}}\) with \(F(\infty )=\infty \). Thus, there exists \(B\in {\mathbb{C}}\) and the functions \(h ( z ) :=\varphi ( \frac{1}{z} ) \), \(g ( z ) :=\psi ( \frac{1}{z} ) \) such that
Let \(k\in {\mathbb{N}}:={\mathbb{N}}_{1}\), where \({\mathbb{N}}_{m}:= \{ m,m+1,\ldots \} \). We denote by \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) the class of functions \(f\in \mathcal{M}\) of the form
which are sense-preserving and univalent in \({\mathbb{U}}\), and let \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}:=\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( 1 ) \).
Recently, classes of meromorphic harmonic functions were intensively studied (see for example [1–11]).
A function \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) is called meromorphic harmonic starlike in \(\mathbb{U} ( r ) \) if f maps \(\partial \mathbb{U} ( r ) \) onto a curve that is starlike with respect to the origin, i.e.,
or equivalently
where
Let φ and Φ be complex-valued functions in \({ \mathbb{U}}\). If \(\varphi ({\mathbb{U}})\subset \Phi ({\mathbb{U}})\), then we say that φ is weakly subordinate to Φ, and we write \(\varphi (z)\preceq \Phi (z) \) (see Muir [16]).
For functions
we define the convolution of functions \(f_{1}\) and \(f_{2}\) by
In [17] Ruscheweyh introduced an operator \(\mathcal{D}^{\lambda }\) defined on the class of analytic functions by
Now, we define the Ruscheweyh derivative \(\mathcal{D}^{\lambda }\) on the class of meromorphic harmonic functions. Let \(\mathcal{D}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\lambda }:\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \rightarrow \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) denote the operator defined for a function \(f=h+\overline{g}\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) by
where
It is clear that \(\mathcal{D}_{\mathcal{H}}^{0}f=f\) and \(\mathcal{D}_{\mathcal{H}}^{1}f=\mathcal{D}_{\mathcal{H}}f\).
Due to Janowski [13] (see also [9]) we define the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) of functions \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) that satisfy the following condition
By \(\mathcal{W}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) we denote the class of functions \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) such that
Moreover, let us denote
The classes \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\ast }:=\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\ast }(0)\) and \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{c}:=\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{c}(0)\) were studied in [3] (see also [9]). We see that the function \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\ast }\) is starlike in \(\mathbb{U} ( r ) \) for all \(r\in ( 0,1 \rangle \).
In this paper, we obtain some necessary and sufficient conditions for the defined classes of functions. In addition to finding certain analytic criteria, we obtain radii of starlikeness and convexity, and some topological properties for the defined classes of functions. Some applications of these results are also given.
2 Analytic criteria
To obtain the main results we need the following lemma.
Lemma 1
[8] A complex-valued function φ in \({\mathbb{U}}\) is weakly subordinate to a complex-valued univalent function Φ in \({\mathbb{U}}\) if and only if there exists a complex-valued function ω that maps \({\mathbb{U}}\) into oneself such that \(\varphi (z)=\Phi (\omega (z))\), \(z\in {\mathbb{U}}\).
Theorem 1
Let \(f\in \mathcal{M}\) be of the form (1) and
Then, \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) if the condition
holds true.
Proof
It is easy to verify that
Thus, by (6) we have
It is well known that the Jacobian of f is given by
A function f is locally univalent and sense-preserving if the Jacobian of f is positive in \({\mathbb{U}}\). Lewy [15] proved that the converse is true for harmonic mappings. Since
we have that f is locally univalent and sense-preserving in \({ \mathbb{U}}\). To obtain univalence we assume that \(w_{1},w_{2}\in {\mathbb{U}}\), \(w_{1}\neq w_{2}\). Then,
and by (7) we obtain
Thus, \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) and by Lemma 1 we obtain that \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\ast } ( k;M,N ) \) if and only if there exists a complex-valued function χ bounded by 1 in \({\mathbb{U}}\) for which
or equivalently
Therefore, we need to show that
Putting \(\vert z \vert =r\) (\(0< r<1\)) we obtain
which implies \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \). □
Let \(\mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k ) \) be the class of functions \(f=h+\overline{g}\in \mathcal{M} ( k ) \) with varying coefficients (e.g., see [12]) so that
and let
The sufficient coefficient bound given in Theorem 1 is also necessary for functions to be in the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \), as stated in the following theorem.
Theorem 2
Let \(f\in \mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda }\) be a function of the form (1). Then, \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) if and only if the condition (6) holds true.
Proof
By Theorem 1 we need to prove the “only if” part. Let \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\eta }^{\ast } ( k;M,N ) \). Then, by (8) we obtain
Thus, by (9) for \(z=re^{i\eta }\) (\(0< r<1\)), we have
The denominator of the left-hand side cannot vanish for \(r\in ( 0,1 ) \). Also, it is positive for \(r=0\), and in consequence for \(r\in ( 0,1 ) \). Thus, by (10) we have
The sequence of partial sums \(\{ S_{n} \} \) related to the series \(\sum_{n=k}^{\infty } ( \alpha _{n} \vert a_{n} \vert +\beta _{n} \vert b_{n} \vert ) \) is a nondecreasing sequence. Moreover, by (11) it is bounded by \(N-M\). Hence, the sequence \(\{ S_{n} \} \) is convergent and \(\sum_{n=k}^{\infty } ( \alpha _{n} \vert a_{n} \vert +\beta _{n} \vert b_{n} \vert ) =\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty }S_{n}\leq N-M\), which gives (6). □
Analogously as Theorem 2 we can prove the following theorem.
Theorem 3
Let \(f\in \mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k ) \) be a function of the form (1). Then, \(f\in \mathcal{W}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) if and only if
By Theorems 2 and 3 we have the following corollary.
Corollary 1
Let \(a=\frac{1+M}{1+N}\) and
Then,
In particular,
Remark 1
If we put \(n=0\) or \(n=1\) in Theorems 1 and 2, then we obtain similar results for the classes \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\ast } ( k;M,N ) \) and \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{c} ( k;M,N ) \).
3 Radii of convexity and starlikeness of order α
By using condition (2) we generalize the definition of starlikeness of meromorphic harmonic functions. We say that a function \(f\in \mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k ) \) is starlike of order α in \({\mathbb{U}}(r)\) if
Also, a function \(f\in \mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k ) \) is said to be convex of order α in \({\mathbb{U}}(r)\) if
It is easy to verify that for a function \(f\in \mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k ) \) the condition (13) is equivalent to the following
or equivalently
Let \(\mathcal{B}\) be a subclass of the class \(\mathcal{T}_{\eta }^{\lambda } ( k ) \). We define the radius of starlikeness \(R_{\alpha }^{\ast }(\mathcal{B})\) and the radius of convexity \(R_{\alpha }^{c}(\mathcal{B})\) for the class \(\mathcal{B}\) by
Theorem 4
where \(c_{n}\) and \(d_{n}\) are defined by (5).
Proof
Let \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( M,N ) \) be of the form (1). Then, putting \(\vert z \vert =r<1\) we have
Thus, the condition (14) is true if
By Theorem 2, we have
where \(c_{n}\) and \(d_{n}\) are defined by (5). Thus, the condition (16) is true if
that is, if
It follows that the function f is starlike of order α in the disk \({\mathbb{U}}(r^{\ast })\), where
The radii of starlikeness \(r^{\ast } ( h_{n} ) \), \(r^{\ast } ( g_{n} ) \) of functions \(h_{n}\), \(g_{n} \) (\(n\in \mathbb{N}\)) of the form
are given by
Therefore, the radius \(r^{\ast }\) given by (18) cannot be larger. Thus, we have (15). □
The following result may be proved in much the same way as Theorem 4.
Theorem 5
Let \(c_{n}\) and \(d_{n}\) be defined by (5). Then,
If we put \(n=0\) or \(n=1\) in Theorems 4 and 5 we obtain the following results.
Corollary 2
4 Topological properties
Let us consider the usual topology on \(\mathcal{ M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) defined by a metric in which a sequence \(\{ f_{n} \} \) in \(\mathcal{ M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) converges to f if and only if it converges to f uniformly on each compact subset of \({\mathbb{U}}\). It follows from the theorems of Weierstrass and Montel that this topological space is complete.
Let \(\mathcal{B}\) be a subclass of the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \). We say that a function \(f\in \mathcal{B}\) is an extreme point of \(\mathcal{B}\) if it cannot be represented as a nondegenerate, convex, and linear combination of two function from \(\mathcal{B}\). We denote by \(E\mathcal{B}\) the set of all extreme points of \(\mathcal{B}\). We have that \(E\mathcal{B}\subset \mathcal{B}\).
A class \(\mathcal{B}\) is called convex if any convex linear combination of two functions from \(\mathcal{B}\) belongs to \(\mathcal{B}\). We denote by \(\overline{co}\mathcal{B}\) the closed convex hull of \(\mathcal{B}\), i.e., the intersection of all closed, convex subsets of \({\mathcal{M}}\) that contain \(\mathcal{B}\)..
A real-valued functional \(\mathcal{D}:\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is called convex on a convex class \(\mathcal{B}\subset \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) if for \(f,g\in \mathcal{B}\) and \(0\leq \lambda \leq 1\) we have
From the Krein–Milman theorem (see [14]) we have the following lemma.
Lemma 2
Let \(\mathcal{B}\) be a nonempty, compact, and convex subclass of the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) and \(\mathcal{D}:\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a real-valued, continuous, and convex functional on \(\mathcal{B}\). Then,
and
Moreover, from Montel’s theorem we obtain the following lemma.
Lemma 3
A class \(\mathcal{B}\subset \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \) is compact if and only if \(\mathcal{B}\) is closed and locally uniformly bounded.
Theorem 6
The class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) is a compact and convex subclass of \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \).
Proof
Let \({0\leq \lambda \leq 1}\) and \(f_{1},f_{2}\in \mathcal{M}_{ \mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) be functions of the form
Then, we have
Moreover, by Theorem 2 we obtain
Thus, the function \({\varphi }=\lambda f_{1}+(1-\lambda )f_{2}\) belongs to the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) and, in consequence, the class is convex.
The class is locally uniformly bounded if for each r, R, \(0< r< R<1\), there is a real constant \(L=L ( r,R ) \) so that
Let \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \), \(0< r\leq \vert z \vert \leq R<1\). Then, by Theorem 2, we have
This implies that the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) is locally uniformly bounded. Next, we show that it is closed. Let \(f_{l}\) and f be given by (19) and (1), respectively. By Theorem 2 we obtain
If \(f_{l}\rightarrow f\), then we obtain that \(a_{l,n}\rightarrow a_{n}\) and \(b_{l,n}\rightarrow b_{n}\) as \(l\rightarrow \infty\) (\(n\in {\mathbb{N}}_{k} \)). The sequence of partial sums \(\{ S_{n} \} \) associated with the series \(\sum_{n=k}^{\infty } ( c_{n} \vert a_{n} \vert +d_{n} \vert b_{n} \vert ) \) is a nondecreasing sequence. Moreover, by (20) it is bounded by \(N-M\). Therefore, the sequence \(\{ S_{n} \} \) is convergent and \(\sum_{n=k}^{\infty } ( c_{n} \vert a_{n} \vert +d_{n} \vert b_{n} \vert ) =\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty }S_{n}\leq N-M\). This gives the condition (6), and, in consequence, \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \), which completes the proof. □
Theorem 7
where \(h_{k-1}(z)=\frac{1}{z}\) and
Proof
Let \(f_{1},f_{2}\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) be functions of the form (6), \(g_{n}=\lambda f_{1}+ ( 1-\lambda ) f_{2}\) with \(0<\lambda <1\). Then, by (6) we obtain \(\vert b_{1,n} \vert = \vert b_{2,n} \vert =\frac{N-M}{\beta _{n}}\). Thus, \(a_{1,l}=a_{2,l}=0\) for \(l\in {\mathbb{N}}_{k} \) and \(b_{1,l}=b_{2,l}=0\) for \(l\in {\mathbb{N}}_{k}\diagdown \{ n \} \). This means that \(g_{n}=f_{1}=f_{2}\), and, in consequence, \(g_{n}\in E\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \). In the same way, we show that the functions \(h_{n}\) of the form (21) are the extreme points of the class \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \). Now, let \(f\in E\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) be not of the form (21). Then, there exists \(r\in {\mathbb{N}}_{k}\) such that
If \(0< \vert a_{r} \vert <\frac{N-M}{\alpha _{r}}\), then for
we have that \(0<\lambda <1\), \(h_{r}\neq \varphi \) and \(f=\lambda h_{r}+ ( 1-\lambda ) \varphi \). Thus, \(f\notin E\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \). Analogously, if \(0< \vert b_{r} \vert <\frac{N-M}{\beta _{n}}\), then for
we have that \(0<\lambda <1\), \(g_{r}\neq \phi \) and \(f=\lambda g_{r}+ ( 1-\lambda ) \phi \). Thus, \(f\notin E\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \), and the proof is completed. □
5 Applications of extreme points
If the class \(\mathcal{B}= \{ f_{n}\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) : n\in \mathbf{\mathbb{N} } \} \) is locally uniformly bounded, then
Thus, by Lemma 2 and Theorem 7 we obtain
Corollary 3
where \(h_{n}\), \(g_{n}\) are defined by (21).
It is easy to show that the following real-valued functionals are convex and continuous on \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \):
for each fixed value of \(n\in {\mathbb{N}}_{k}\), \(z\in {\mathbb{U}}\), \(\gamma \geq 1\), \(0< r<1\). Thus, by Lemma 2 and Theorem 7 we have the following results.
Corollary 4
Let \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \) be a function of the form (1), \(0< r<1\), \(\gamma \geq 1\). Then,
where \(c_{n}\), \(d_{n}\) are defined by (5). The results are sharp with extremal functions \(h_{n}\), \(g_{n}\) of the form (21).
Corollary 5
If \(f\in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\lambda } ( k;M,N ) \), then
where
Remark 2
If we put \(n=0\) or \(n=1\) in Corrolaries 3 and 4 we obtain similar results for the classes \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{\ast } ( k;M,N ) \) and \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{\eta }}^{c} ( k;M,N ) \).
By using Corollary 1 and the results above we obtain the corollaries listed below.
Corollary 6
The class \(\mathcal{W}_{\mathcal{\eta }} ( k;M,N ) \) is a convex and compact subset of \(\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{H}} ( k ) \). Moreover,
and
where \(h_{k-1}(z)=z\) and
Corollary 7
If \(f\in \mathcal{W}_{\mathcal{\eta }} ( k;M,N ) \) is of the form (1), then
The results are sharp with extremal functions \(h_{n}\), \(g_{n}\) of the form (22).
Corollary 8
If \(f\in \mathcal{W}_{\mathcal{\eta }} ( k;M,N ) \), then
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Dziok, J. Ruscheweyh-type meromorphic harmonic functions. J Inequal Appl 2024, 132 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-024-03160-y
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