1. Introduction
The area of quantum calculus (
q-calculus) has caught the attention of many scientists. The great concentration in numerous branches of mathematics and physics is due to its wide spread applications in various areas of sciences. It is also well known that the time scale calculus includes
q-calculus as a special case; see, e.g., the papers [
1,
2], (which have numerous applications in mathematics and phisics) for more details. In the investigation of multiple subclasses of analytic functions, the versatile applications of the
q-derivative operator is fairly obvious from its applications. The concept of
q-starlike functions was introduced by Ismail et al. [
3] in 1990. At the same time, in the way of Geometric Function Theory, a strong foothold of the use of the
q-calculus was fruitfully estabilished. Following that, several mathematicians have performed notable studies, which play an important role in the advancement of geometric function theory. A survey-cum-expository review paper was recently published by Srivastava [
4], work that could be helpful for further researchers and scholars working on this subject- matter. In this survey, the mathematical description and implementations of the fractional
q-derivative operators and fractional
q-calculus in geometric function theory were methodically explored [
4]. Particularly, Srivastava et al. [
5] also studied some classes of
q-starlike functions related with conic region. For other recent contributions on this topic, one may refer to [
6,
7].
As it is well known, one of the top remarkable special functions is the Bessel function. As a result, the Bessel functions are important for solving many problems in physics, engineering, and mathematics (see [
8]). In the past few years, many mathematicians been devoted on determining the varied requirements under which a Bessel function has geometric properties such as convexity, close-to-convexity and starlikeness in the frame of a unit disc.
In the present investigation, we consider some geometric properties including starlikeness of order of Jackson’s second and third q-Bessel functions, which are generalizations of the known classical Bessel function .
We recall some useful notations and concepts that will be used throughout this article.
Denote by
the class of functions
, normalized by
, that are analytic in the unit disk
. The function
has the power series representation
Principle of Subordination (see [
9]): If
f and
g are two analytic functions in
U, we say that
f is subordinate to
written as
if there exists a Schwarz function
w analytic in
with
and
, such that
for all
In particular, if the function
g is univalent in
U, the above subordination is equivalent to
and
implies
, where
Let
B denote the class of Schwarz functions
of the form
which are analytic in the unit disk
and satisfy the condition
and
We state the following well-known result for the class B.
Lemma 1. (Schwarz lemma) If , then and are obtained.
We denote by
S the class all functions in
which are univalent in
U. Denote by
the subclass of functions
that are starlike with the respect to the origin. Anaytically, it is well-known that
if
The class
of starlike functions of order
consist of
that satisfies
i.e.,
f has the subordination property
We now provide some notations and basic concepts of q-calculus which will be needed in our further considerations.
The theory of
q-extensions or
q-analogues of classical formulas and functions is based on the remark that
therefore the number
is sometimes called the basic number
. The
q-factorial
is defined by
As , , and this is the bookmark of a q-analogue: the limit as recovers the classical object.
In [
10,
11], Jackson introduced the
q-difference operator
acting on functions
defined as follows:
It can be noticed that as .
The
q-difference operator plays a major place in the theory of quantum phisics and hypergeometric series (see [
12,
13]).
Therefore, for a function
the
q-derivative is given by
then
, where
is the ordinary derivative.
Under the hypothesis of the definition of
q-derivates operator, for
we have the following rules:
In [
14], Agrawal and Sahoo introduced the class of
q-starlike functions of order
, denoted by
.
A function
is said to belong to the class
, for
, if
Particularly, when
, the class
coincides with the class
, which was initiated by Ismail et al. (see [
3]).
Recall that the
q-shifted factorial, also called the
q-Pochhammer symbol, is defined as
with
. The
q-Pochhammer symbol can be extended to an infinite product
with the special case
known as Euler’s function.
The Jackson’s second and Hahn–Exton (or third Jackson)
q-Bessel functions are defined by (see [
15])
and
where
,
,
and
These analytic functions are
extensions of the classical Bessel functions of the first kind
. Properties of the above
extensions of Bessel functions can be found in [
16,
17] and in the references therein. Because neither
, nor
belongs to the class
, we consider the following normalized forms (see [
18]):
and
where
,
,
and
,
,
.
Clearly, the above functions , , belong to the class .
2. Main Results
We now define the following two differential operators:
for
,
,
,
, where ∗ denotes the usual Hadamard product of analytic functions,
and
for
,
,
,
, where ∗ denotes the usual Hadamard product of analytic functions and
In this paper, we give some necesssary and sufficient conditions for the functions and to be in the class of starlike of order alpha. Some consequences of the main results are also pointed out.
Theorem 1. The function if and only if Proof. Assuming that
, we have:
Therefore, the function
has modulus at most 1 in the unit disk
U and
.
The function
satisfies the conditions of Schwarz lemma, i.e.,
, so, we have:
The above equality shows that
The function
, with
,
, maps the unit disk into itself, so
and the proof is now complete. □
Theorem 2. The function if and only if Proof. The proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 1. □
Corollary 1. Let . Then for
Proof. The linear transformation
maps
onto the circle with the center
, where
and the radius
Using the subordination principle, we get
which readily yields
This proves the conclusion of the corollary. □
Corollary 2. Let . Then Proof. The proof is similar to the proof of Corollary 1. □
Next we derive Theorem 3 bellow.
Theorem 3. Letting , thenfor . Proof. By using the definition of
we get
Using (
10) and (
11), we obtain
or, equivalently
Thus,
where the sum
is convergent in
U. Letting
, and since
, we deduce that
Now passing to the limit in (
14), as
, we obtain the required inequality, hence is now complete.
The proof in this theorem is based on Clunie’s method (see [
19]). □
Theorem 4. Let . Thenfor . Proof. The proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 3. □
The next result deals with the famous Bieberbach conjecture problem in analytic univalent function theory. The Bieberbach conjecture for the class
is proved in [
20].
A necessary and sufficient condition for functions
to be in
was obtained in [
14]:
Theorem 5. A function ∈ if and only if By using this result, we will analyse the Bieberbach - de Branges theorem for the class of q-starlike functions of order
Theorem 6. If , then for all , we havefor Proof. Then there exists
such that
Clearly, .
For
we get
Comparing the coefficients of
, we get
thus,
Since
, for
Thus, for
,
, and for
, by applying a similar method to estimate
, we obtain
Iteratively, we conclude that, for
,
and the proof is now completed. □
Theorem 7. (The Bieberbach - de Branges theorem for ) If , then for all , we havefor Proof. Then there exists
such that
Clearly, .
For
we get
Comparing the coefficients of
, we get
thus,
Since
, for
Thus, for
,
, and for
, by applying a similar method to estimate
, we obtain
Iteratively, we conclude that, for
,
and the proof is now completed. □
Remark 1. Our usages in the current investigation potentially own local or non-local symmetric or asymmetric properties. Our purpose for further investigation is to study the local symmetry of and and also to introduce and study an extention of them, symmetric under the interchange of q and , motivated by the work of Dattoli and Torre, who introduced (see [21]) a q-analogue of Bessel functions which are symmetric under the interchange of q and .