Successive coefficients for spirallike and related functions
Vibhuti Arora, Saminathan Ponnusamy, and Swadesh Kumar Sahoo

TL;DR
This paper investigates the bounds on the differences of successive coefficients in certain classes of univalent functions, including spirallike, starlike, and convex functions, within the unit disk.
Contribution
It provides new estimates for the differences of successive coefficients for $eta$-spirallike functions of order $ heta$, extending known results to broader classes.
Findings
Derived bounds for coefficient differences in $eta$-spirallike functions.
Special cases include starlike and convex functions of order $ heta$.
Results contribute to the understanding of coefficient behavior in geometric function theory.
Abstract
We consider the family of all analytic and univalent functions in the unit disk of the form . Our objective in this paper is to estimate the difference of the moduli of successive coefficients, that is , for belonging to the family of -spirallike functions of order . Our particular results include the case of starlike and convex functions of order and other related class of functions.
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Successive coefficients for spirallike and related functions
Vibhuti Arora
Discipline of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Simrol, Khandwa Road
Indore 453 552, India
,
Saminathan Ponnusamy
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600 036, India
and
Swadesh Kumar Sahoo
Discipline of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Simrol, Khandwa Road
Indore 453 552, India
Abstract.
We consider the family of all analytic and univalent functions in the unit disk of the form . Our objective in this paper is to estimate the difference of the moduli of successive coefficients, that is \big{|}|a_{n+1}|-|a_{n}|\big{|}, for belonging to the family of -spirallike functions of order . Our particular results include the case of starlike and convex functions of order and other related class of functions.
Key words and phrases:
Convex functions, Close-to-convex functions, Starlike functions, Spirallike functions, Successive coefficients
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
30D30, 30C45, 30C50 30C55.
1. Introduction and statement of a main result
Let us denote the family of all meromorphic functions with no poles in the unit disk of the form
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by . Clearly, functions in are analytic in and the set of all univalent functions is denoted by . Functions in are of interest because they appear in the Riemann mapping theorem and several other situation in many different contexts. For background knowledge on these settings we refer to the standard books [3, 5, 6, 7, 19].
One of the popular necessary conditions for a function of the form (1.1) to be in is the sharp inequality for , which was first conjectured by Bieberbach in 1916 and proved by de Branges in 1985 ([4]). On the other hand, the problem of estimating sharp bound for successive coefficients, namely, \big{|}|a_{n+1}|-|a_{n}|\big{|}, is also an interesting necessary condition for a function to be in . This problem was first studied by Goluzin [6] with an idea to solve the Bieberbach conjecture. Several results are known in this direction. For example, Hamilton [9] proved that \displaystyle\overline{\lim}_{n\rightarrow\infty}\big{|}|a_{n+1}|-|a_{n}|\big{|}\leq 1. Prior to this paper, Hayman [10] proved in 1963 that
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where is an absolute constant, for functions in of the form (1.1). Milin [18, 19] found a simpler approach, which led to the bound and Ilina [11] improved this to . It is still an open problem to find the minimal value of which works for all , however, the best known bound as of now is which is due to Grinspan [8] (see also [19]). The fact that in (1.2) cannot be replaced by may be seen from the work of [25]. On the other hand, sharp bound is known only for (see [5, Theorem 3.11]), namely,
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Since Schaeffer and Spencer [25] showed that for each there corresponds an odd function in with all of its coefficients real such that , it is also clear that the constant in (1.2) must be greater than for odd functions in the class . Note that for the Koebe function and its rotation , we have \big{|}|a_{n+1}|-|a_{n}|\big{|}=1 for .
Denote by , the class of functions such that is starlike with respect to the origin. Concerning the class , Leung [13] (see also [15]) in 1978 has proved that for starlike functions that was first conjectured by Pommerenke in [21]. More precisely, we have
Theorem A. * [13] For every given by (1.1), we have*
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Equality occurs for fixed only for the function
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*for some and with . *
We remark that, as an application of triangular inequality, Theorem leads to for which is the well known coefficient inequality for starlike functions. This is one of reasons for studying the successive coefficients problem in the univalent function theory. From the above discussion, we understand the importance of finding the minimal value of for functions to be in . Later, the problem of finding the minimal value of was considered for certain other subfamilies of univalent functions such as convex, close-to-convex, and spirallike functions. Among other things, Hamilton in [9] has shown some bound for successive coefficients for spirallike functions and for the class of starlike functions of non-positive order. For convex functions, recently Li and Sugawa [15] obtained the sharp upper bound which is for , and for sharp lower bounds are and , respectively. For , it is still an open problem to find the best lower bound for convex functions. These information clearly shows the level of difficulty in determining the bound on the successive coefficients problem.
Our objective in this paper is to obtain results related to successive coefficients for starlike functions of order , convex functions of order , spirallike functions and functions in the close-to-convex family.
To state our first result we need to introduce the following definitions: The family of -spirallike functions of order is defined by
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where and . Each function in is univalent in (see [16]). Clearly, whenever . Functions in are called -spirallike, but they do not necessarily belong to the starlike family . The class was introduced by paek [27] (see also [5]). Moreover, is the usual class of starlike functions of order , and . The class is meaningful even if , although univalency will be destroyed in this situation.
A function is called convex of order , denoted by if and only if, for some belongs to ; i.e.
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If the inequality (1.3) is equivalent to the definition of a convex function, i.e. maps onto a convex domain. We set . It is well-known that is a proper subset of .
We state our first result which shows that Theorem continues to hold for -spirallike functions. More generally, as a generalization and the extension of Leung’s result, we prove the following result whose proof will be presented in Section 4.
Theorem 1.1**.**
For every of the form (1.1),
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for some absolute constant and for .
Note that for , the above theorem extend the result of Leung [13] from starlike to -spirallike functions and hence Theorem 1.1 contains the result of Hamilton [9]. For a ready reference, we recall it here. However, in this paper, we get his result as a consequence of a general result with an alternate proof.
Corollary 1.2**.**
Let for some , and be of the form (1.1). Then
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Remark 1.3**.**
In Theorem 2.2, we see that Theorem and Corollary 1.2 continue to hold for functions that are not necessarily starlike but is close-to-convex. At this place it is worth pointing out that there are functions that are -spirallike but not close-to-convex. It is also equally true that there exist close-to-convex functions but are not -spirallike. Theorem 2.2 is supplementary for this reasoning.
The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 deals with definitions of classes of functions and statements of main results. In Section 3, we state and prove a lemma which will be used in the proof of our main results in Section 4.
2. Definitions and further results
We consider another family of functions that includes the class of convex functions as a proper subfamily. For , we say that provided is locally univalent in and belongs to , i.e.
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We may set and observe that the class consists of the normalized convex functions of order . For general values of , a function in need not be univalent in . For example, the function is known to belong to . Robertson [24] showed that is univalent if . Finally, Pfaltzgraff [20] has shown that is univalent whenever . This settles the improvement of range of for which is univalent. On the other hand, in [26] it was also shown that functions in which satisfy are univalent for all real values of with . For a general reference about these special classes we refer to [7].
Theorem B. * [15] For every of the form (1.1), the following inequality holds*
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for , and the extremal function is given by
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*for , where a principal branch of logarithm is chosen. *
A straightforward application of Theorem 1.1 yields the following generalization of Theorem for convex functions of order and also for locally univalent functions that are not necessarily univalent in the unit disk .
Corollary 2.1**.**
Suppose that for some and . Then we have
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for some absolute constant . In particular, we have
- (1)
For ,
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For we have
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for some absolute constant .
Proof.
By the classical Alexander theorem, belongs to if and only if is and clearly, Thus, by Theorem 1.1, we have
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This gives,
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The proof of the corollary is complete. ∎
We would like to remark that Hamilton generalized Leung’s result to the case of starlike functions of non-positive order and proved the following:
Theorem C. * [9] For a function for some *
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*Equality holds for the function . *
Let be locally univalent. Then, according to Kaplan’s theorem, it follows that is close-to-convex if and only if for each and for each pair of real numbers and with ,
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If a locally univalent analytic function defined in satisfies
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then by the Kaplan characterization it follows easily that is close-to-convex in , and hence is univalent in . This generates the following subclass of the class of close-to-convex (univalent) functions:
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This class of functions is also studied recently by the authors in [2], and others in different contexts; for instance see [14, 1, 22] and references therein. Functions in are not necessarily starlike but is convex in some direction as the function
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shows. Note that
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and thus , but not starlike in .
Theorem 2.2**.**
Let . Then
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The following result is an immediate consequence of Theorem 2.2 which solves the Robertson conjecture problem for the class . It is worth pointing out that in 1966 Robertson [23] conjectured that the Bieberbach Conjecture could be strengthened to
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however, two years latter Jenkins [12] showed that this inequality fails in the class .
Theorem 2.3**.**
Let . Then for we have
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Equality holds for .
3. Preliminary result
The following lemma plays a crucial role in the proof of our main results.
Lemma 3.1**.**
Let be analytic in such that in for some . Suppose that is analytic in , where and for some . Then we have the inequality
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Proof.
Let us first prove the result for . Consider the identity
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so that
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since (with )
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by the Cauchy integral formula and the fact that . Using the power series representation of and , it follows that (since on )
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By (3.2), (3.3) and the assumption that for some , the identity (3.1) reduces to
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where we have used the fact that
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The desired result for the case follows by letting in the last inequality.
Finally, for the general case, we first observe that , where
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Also, the given condition on gives where
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Applying the previous arguments for the pair , one obtains that
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so that , as desired. ∎
Remark 3.2**.**
We remark that Lemma 3.1 for is obtained by MacGregor[17] (see also [13] and [5, p.178, Lemma]).
4. Proof of the main results
We begin with the proof of Theorem 1.1
4.1. Proof of Theorem 1.1
Let . Then by the definition, we may consider by
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so that
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where and is analytic in . We may rewrite the last equation as
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which by simple integration gives
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where we use the principal value of the logarithm such that =0. By the Taylor series expansion of and (4.2), we get
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where and
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Also, for , we have
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From (4.3) and (4.4), it follows that
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Then, by the third Lebedev-Milin inequality (see [5, p. 143]), we have
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or equivalently
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Now we consider
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and let be the maximum of on Applying Lemma 3.1 with for and for , we obtain
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Choosing (say ) so that we see that
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Hence from (4.5), for some with Since
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the proof of our theorem is complete.
Here we provide one example that associates to Theorem 1.1.
Example 4.1**.**
Consider the function , where . It is easy to check that ,
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Again consider the function
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It is clear that . Now, if we adopt the proof of Lemma 3.1 and Theorem 1.1 by assuming and , then for we obtain
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4.2. Proof of Theorem 2.2
Let . Then the function , where , belongs to . From Theorem , we obtain that
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which implies that
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and the proof is complete.
Example 4.2**.**
Consider the function defined by (2.2), namely,
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It is easy to check that satisfies the hypothesis of Theorem 2.2. For this function, we have
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Example 4.3**.**
Consider the function defined by
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A simple computation shows that and for this function, we see that
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so the result is compatible with Theorem 2.2.
4.3. Proof of Theorem 2.3
Let . Then we have
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by (4.6). Here Using the triangle inequality, we deduce that for
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Clearly the equality holds for defined by (2.2) in which the coefficient of is
Remark 4.4**.**
It would be interesting to see an improved version of our results in which the upper bounds are depending upon sharp absolute constant .
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the referee for many useful comments. The work of the second author is supported by Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS) of DST, India (MTR/2017/000367).
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