1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Let
denote the class of all analytic and normalized functions
f having the Maclaurin series expansion as follows
where
represents the open unit disk in the complex plane
, and let consider a subclass of
containing all the univalent functions of
.
The subclass of
defined by
is called the class of
starlike functions (with respect to the origin) in
, and it’s well-known that
. Let
denote the family of functions
w which are analytic in
, such that
and
for
. Such functions are referred to as
Schwarz functions.
Consider two analytic functions f and g in . Then we say that f is subordinated to g, written as if there exists a Schwarz function w such that for . If then and , and if g is univalent in then if and only if and .
Based on the geometric properties of the image of
by some analytic functions, the functions can be categorized into different families. Thus, in 1992 Ma and Minda [
19] introduced a generalized subclass of
denoted by
which is defined in terms of the subordination as follows:
where
satisfies the conditions
and
in
and
maps the unit disk
onto a star-shaped domain. Several subclasses of
can be obtained by varying the function
. For example, if we choose
,
, then we get the class
which is called the
Janowski starlike functions class and was investigated in [
12]. Sokól and Stankiewicz [
30] defined and studied the class
, where the function
maps
onto the image domain bounded by
. The class
was studied by Sharma [
29] and it’s related to the
cardioid function.
In case of
the class
was defined and examined in [
1], whereas the class
is presented and studied in [
21] by Mendiratta et al. For
the class
was introduced and investigated in [
2,
10], while if
the class
was defined and studied in [
31]. Recently, the class
defined by
was introduced and investigated in [
5], and to determine sharp results connected with those of [
20] represent the main goal of the present paper.
The following part of this section is necessary for the motivation of this work. Thus, in 1916 Bieberbach presented the well-known
Bieberbach conjecture which was proved by de Branges [
7] in 1985. Prior to de Branges proof of this conjecture numerous mathematicians exerted considerable effort to prove it, leading to the establishment of coefficient bounds for some remarkable subclasses of the class
. They also developed new inequalities related to coefficient bounds for some subclasses of univalent functions, and those related to the
Fekete-Szego functional, that is
, is one of those inequalities. Another coefficient problem closely related to Fekete–Szego functional is the
Hankel determinant as we will see below.
Like we could see in Pommerenke’s [
24], for a function
the Hankel determinant
is as follows:
where
. We remark that
where
is the classical Fekete-Szego functional obtained for
. Several authors have determined the maximum value of
and the upper bound for
for various subclasses of
, see for example [
13,
14,
22]. Results regarding the second Hankel determinant
could be found also in the recent papers like [
23,
28,
32]. The determinant
is not much studied in the literature. Babalola [
3] studied first time a non-sharp bounds for the determinant
for various subclasses of
, while in 2017 Zaprawa [
33] improved the results of Babalola by using a new technique. We mention that the sharp bounds of the modulus of
for the class
are recently obtained by Kowalczyk et al. [
17], whereas for the class
and bounded turning functions sharp bounds were obtained in [
15,
16], respectively. For sharp inequalities results of the determinant
for some subclasses of
we refer to [
4,
18,
26,
27,
28].
Very recently Marimuthu et al. [
20] have determined the coefficient bounds, the upper bounds for the second, third and fourth order Hankel determinants for the functions of the class
, but most of the results presented in this paper are not sharp.
Motivated from the aforementioned study, in this paper we have established the sharp results for the upper bounds of the coefficients, the inverse coefficients and the logarithmic coefficients of the functions of the class . Also we have developed the sharp upper bounds for the modulus of the second and third order Hankel determinants for the functions of this class.
The well-known
Carathéodory class is the family of holomorphic functions
h in
which satisfy the condition
,
, and having the power series expansion of the form
The study of some coefficient problems in different classes of analytic functions revolves around the idea of expressing function coefficients in a given class by function coefficients that have a positive real part. Thus, inequalities known for the class can be used to study coefficient functionals. We require the following results about the class for our discussions.
We will recall the well-known
Carathéodory lemma [
8] (see also [
11,
25]):
Lemma 1.
If has the form (4), then
The inequality holds for all if and only if , .
The next result represents the relations (2.7), (2.8) and (2.9) of Lemma 2.4. from [
6]:
Lemma 2.
[6] Let be the closed unit disk, and be given by (4). Then,
for some and .
Note that the extension of this lemma for the coefficients
and
may also be found in Lemma 2.1. of [
9].
The next lemma represents the first part of the result from [
19]:
Lemma 3.
If is given by (4), then
2. Initial Coefficients Sharp Upper Bounds
The next main results gives us the sharp upper bounds for the initial coefficients of the functions from the class .
Theorem 1.
Let be given by (1). Then,
and these bounds are sharp.
Proof. If
, then by the definition of subordination there exists a Schwarz function
w that is analytic in
and satisfies the condition
and
for all
such that
Therefore, the function
h defined by
has the property
.
Using the relations (
6) and (
7), by equating the first four coefficients we get
(i) From the second relation of (
8), according to the inequality (
5) if follows that
and this inequality is attained for the function
from the Remark 2.2. of [
20]. Thus, the above upper bound is sharp, that is the best possible.
(ii) To find the upper bound of
, we see that the third equality of (
8) could be written in the form
and using Lemma 3 for
we obtain
Denoting
, from Lemma 1 we have
, hence
It’s easy to check that the function
F attained the maximum value at
, and according to the above inequality we get
For the prove the sharpness of this upper bound, let
,
and
thus
. To prove that
in
, we remarks that the function
could be written in the form
, where
Since
,
, if and only if
,
, where
is a circular transform. It’s easy to check that
Using the fact that every circular transform maps the circles (in the large sense, that are circles or lines) of
into circles of
, from the above values of
H it follows that
,
, which implies
in
, hence
Therefore, the function
belongs to the class
, hence
for the above function
that proves the sharpness of the second inequality of this theorem.
(iii) To determine the upper bound of
, using the relation (9) combined with Lemma 2 we obtain
Setting
,
and
, from the triangle’s inequality we obtain
where
Denoting by the closed unit cuboid, we have to find the maximum value of F in .
I. First, let’s consider that
belongs to the interior of
, denoted by
. Differentiating (
13) with respect to
u we obtain
therefore the function
F have no extremal values in
.
II. Next we will discuss the existence of the maximum value for F on the open six faces of , as follows.
(i) On the face
the next inequality holds:
(ii) On the face
we have the equality
(iii) On
, let denote
and because
it follows that the function
has no extremal values on
.
(iv) On the open face
the function
F reduces to
Since
,
, therefore
is a strictly decreasing function on
, hence
(v) For the open face
we get
therefore
hence the system of equations
and
has no solutions in
.
(vi) On the open face
the function
F becomes
and it’s easy to check that the system of equations
and
has no solutions in
.
III. Now we will investigate the existence of the maximum of F on the edges of .
(ii) Also, from (
16) we get
. We may easily see that the zero of
in
given by
satisfies
, thus
(iii) Putting
in (
16) we have
(iv) Since (
17) is independent of
u, similarly as we obtained the inequality (
18) we deduce
and putting
in (
17) we obtain
(v) The function given by (
15) is independent on the variables
y and
u, thus
(vi) Since the function defined by (
14) is independent of the variable
u, we have
From all the above reasons we conclude that
and according to (
12) we finally obtain that
. This upper bound for
is sharp for the function
that completes our proof. □
Remark 1. 1. In [20] it is proved that and and the authors gave in the Remark 2.2. a function of the class for which and . In the above theorem the results are sharp by giving the best upper bounds.
2. The maximum value of the function F defined by (13) could be easily found using the MAPLE™ software with the code
[> maximize(F,x=0..1,y=0..1,u=0..1,location=true);
that gives the same result as above.
In the following two theorems we determined the sharp upper bounds for the Hankel determinants and , respectively, over the class .
Theorem 2.
If is given by (1), then
and this result is sharp.
Proof. Using the relations (
8)–(9) in (3) we obtain
and replacing all the variables of the above relation with those of Lemma 2 it follows that
If we set
,
and
, using the above relation and the triangle’s inequality we get
where
With the same notations and method like in the proof of Theorem 1, next we will find the maximum value of F in .
I. If we consider that
, differentiating (
21) with respect to
u we obtain
it follows that the function
F have no maximum value in
.
II. In the sequel we will study the existence of the maximum value of F in the interior of six faces of .
(i) On the face
we have
(ii) On the face
we get
(iii) On
, the function
F can be written as
Since
it implies that the function
has no maximum point in this face of
.
(iv) On
, the function
F reduces to
Since
,
, it follows that
has the zero
, that satisfy the inequality
, we obtain
(v) On the face
, the function
F becomes
thus
It’s easy to see that the system of equations and have no solutions in .
(vi) On
, the function
F takes the form
Similarly, the system of equations and have no solutions in .
III. Now we will investigate the existence of the maximum of F on the edges of .
(ii) The relation (
24) at
becomes
,
. The solution of
is
and satisfy
, hence
(iii) Putting
in (
24) we have
(iv) Since (
25) is independent of
u, similarly as above we obtain
while if we take
in (
25) it follows
(v) The relation (
23) is independent on the variables
, hence
(vi) Finally, since (
22) is independent on the variable
, we have
All the inequalities we obtained above show that
and using (
20) our inequality is proved.
For proving the sharpness of this inequality, let consider
,
and
We can see that
, and let’s write the function
as
, where
From the same reasons regarding the circular transforms like in the proof of the sharpness of Theorem 1(ii), we will show that
in
by proving that
,
, where
is a circular transform. Since
like in the above mentioned proof, these values of
H lead us to
,
, which implies
in
, therefore
Thus, the function
belongs to the class
, with the initial coefficients
From the relation (3) we get and the proof is complete. □
Remark 2. In [20] it is proved that for all , but that result wasn’t the best possible. If we compare the upper bounds of for , obtained here with those of [20], the result of Theorem 2 is a significant improvement of the previous one. Moreover, the inequality obtained in above theorem is sharp, thus the found upper bound for if cannot be improved.
Theorem 3.
If has the form (1), then
and the result is sharp.
Proof. Replacing in (
2) the values of
,
,
, and
given by (
8)–(9) we obtain
According to the Lemma 2, from the above relation we deduce that
Setting
,
and
, then using the triangle’s inequality, the above relation lead us to
where
With the same notations like in the proofs of the two previous theorems, we have to find the maximum value of F on , on the six faces, and on the twelve edges of .
I. First we consider the arbitrary interior point
. Differentiating (
28) with respect to
u we obtain
therefore we have no maximum value of
F in
.
II. Next we will study the existence of the maximum value of the function F in the interior of six faces of .
(i) On the face
the function
F reduces to
(ii) On the face
it takes the form
(iii) On
, the function
F can be written as
Since
it follows that
has no maximum point in this face of
.
(iv) On
, the function
F reduces to
thus
Hence
has the zero
and
. Therefore,
(v) On the face
the function
F becomes
Therefore,
and the system of equations
and
have no solutions in
.
(vi) On
, the function
F takes the form
hence
Therefore, the system of equations and have no solutions in .
III. Now we investigate the maximum of F on the edges of .
(ii) Also, from (
31) at
we get
. The solution in
of the equation
for which
is
, thus
(iii) Putting
in (
31) we have
(iv) Since (
32) is independent on
u, according to (
33) we obtain
(v) If we take
in (
32) we get
Using the fact that the relation (
30) is independent on the variables
y and
u, we deduce
(vi) Since the relation (
29) is independent of the variable
u, we have
Consequently, from the above reasons we conclude that
and combining with (
27) it follows
To prove the sharpness of the above result, let us consider
,
and
First,
, and we will write
, where
Using the same property of the circular transforms like in the proof of the sharpness of Theorem 1(ii) and Theorem 2, we will show that
in
by proving that
,
, where
is a circular transform. Computing the below values
from the similar reasons as in the above mentioned proofs, these values of
H implies
,
, that yields
in
, therefore
Consequently, the function
belongs to the class
. In the above power series expansion we have
,
and
, hence
that completes our proof. □
Remark 3. The maximum values of the functions F defined by (21) and (28) could be also found by using the MAPLE™ computer software codes like in the Remark 1 2., and we obtain the same values like in both of the above two theorems.
3. Logarithmic Coefficients Sharp Upper Bounds
The logarithmic coefficients
,
, for the function
are defined by
Since the function
has positive real part in
, and moreover
it follows that
(see [
20, p. 610]). Therefore, it is possible to define the logarithmic coefficients for the functions
.
In this section we give the sharp upper bounds estimates for the third and fourth logarithmic coefficients of the functions that belong to the class .
Theorem 4.
If is given by (1), then
These bounds are sharp.
Proof. If
has the form (
1), then
and equating the first four coefficients of (
34) with those of (
35) we get
With the same notation like in the proof of Theorem 1, replacing in (
36) and (37) the values of
,
,
and
from the relations (
8) and (9), we obtain
For the upper bound of
, using (
38) we write
and according to Lemma 3 for
we obtain
Denoting
, from Lemma 1 we have
Using the result we got for the computation of the maximum
F given by (
10) we get
.
To prove the sharpness of this bound let consider the function
given by (
11), were
,
,
and
. Therefore, for this function, by using the last of the relations from (
36) we obtain
.
To find the upper bound of
, from (37) combined with Lemma 2 we can write
and setting
,
and
, using the triangle’s inequality we obtain
where
Using the notations and the technique from the proofs of the previous theorems, we will determine the maximum of F on as follows.
I. In the points
, differentiating (
41) with respect to
u we obtain
therefore the function
F doesn’t attained its maximum value in
.
II. In the next items we will discuss the existence of the maximum value of F in the interior of six faces of .
(i) On the face
we get
(ii) On the face
the function
F takes the form
(iii) On
, the function can be written as
and because
it implies that the function
has no maximum in
.
(iv) On
, the function
F reduces to
Since
,
, the function
is strictly decreasing on
, hence
(v) On the face
,
F will have the form
Therefore
thus the system of equations
and
have no solutions in
.
(vi) On
, the function
F will be
Similarly, it’s easy to check that the system of equations and have no solutions in .
III. Now we will investigate the existence of the maximum of F on the edges of .
(i) From (
44) at
we have
(ii) Using (
44) at
, we get
, hence
. The solution of
in
is
and
it follows that
(iii) Putting
in (
44) we get
(iv) Since (
45) is independent on
u we obtain
while for
in (
45) we get
(v) The relation (
43) is independent with respect to the variables
y and
u, thus
(vi) Finally, since (
42) is independent on the variable
u, consequently
The above computations lead to
and from (
40) we conclude that
.
For proving the sharpness of the above inequality, we consider the function
given by (
19). In this case
,
and
, and from (37) we get
, that completes our proof. □
Remark 4. In [20] it is proved that and , while our above results are sharp and give the best upper bounds for these coefficients.
Theorem 5.
Let be given by (1). Then, for the function given by (34) the next inequality holds
and this result is sharp.
Proof. Replacing the values of (
38) and (39) in the relation
2 we obtain
Using the Lemma 2 we obtain
and denoting
,
,
, using the triangle’s inequality the above relation yields
where
With the notations used in the proofs of the previous three theorems we will determine the maximum value of F in .
I. For all the interior points
, differentiating (
48) with respect to
u we obtain
hence the function doesn’t get its maximum in
.
II. Next we will study if it’s possible to obtain the maximum value of F in the interior of six faces of .
(i) On the face
we have
(ii) On the face
the function
F takes the form
(iii) On
the function
F can be written as
Since
it follows that the function
has no maximum in
.
(iv) On
, the function reduces to
Since
has on
the root
and
, we deduce that
(v) On the face
the function
F reduces to
therefore
Thus, the system of equations and has no solutions in .
(vi) On
the function
F takes the form
We get
and
hence the system of equations
and
has no solutions in
.
III. Now we will investigate the maximum of F on the edges of .
(i) From (
51) for
we have
(ii) From (
51) for
, let
. The solutions in
of the equation
are
and
. Since
and
we deduce that
(iii) Putting
in (
51) we have
(iv) Since the relation (
52) is independent on
u, from (
53) we obtain
(v) If we take
in (
52), we obtain
(vi) The relation (
50) is independent on the variables
y and
u, thus
Similarly, since the formula (
49) is independent on the variable
u we have
From the above reasons it follows
and using (
47) we conclude that
To prove the sharpness of the above inequality, we denote
and
such that
It is easy to see that
and to prove that
in
we will write the function
like
, where
According to the same reasons regarding the circular transforms like in the proofs of the sharpness of Theorem 1(ii) and Theorem 2, we will show that
,
, by proving that
,
, where
is a circular transform. It’s easy to compute
and these values of the circular transform
H implies that
,
, which leads us to
in
, hence
Consequently, the function
belongs to the class
. The initial coefficients of
are
and from (
36) and (37) we obtain
Hence,
that proves the sharpness of our estimation. □
Remark 5. Like we already mentioned in the Remark 3, the same maximum values of the functions F defined by (41) and (48) could be also found by using the MAPLE™ computer software codes like in the Remark 1 2.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; methodology, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; software, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; validation, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; formal analysis, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; investigation, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; resources, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; data curation, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; writing—original draft preparation, M.R. and T.B.; writing—review and editing, M.R. and T.B.; visualization, R.A., M.R. and T.B.; supervision, M.R. and T.B.; project administration, R.A., M.R. and T.B.. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.