1. Introduction
Let
A denote the class of all functions of the form:
which are analytic in the open unit disc
.
For brevity, let
denote the class of all analytic
p-valent functions having the form:
A function having the form given by (
2) is said to be
p-valent in the open unit disk
U if it is analytic and assumes no value more than
p times for
. The class
, which is invariant (or symmetric) under rotations, is subject to investigations at the moment for many researchers, with interesting results related to certain subclasses of
p-valent functions being obtained in correlation to operators. For instance, in [
1], applications of a Salagean operator can be seen in [
2], a hypergeometric function is associated with the study, a generalized differential operator is applied in [
3,
4] and a Dziok–Srivastava operator is used in [
5].
In 2018, Porwal [
6] introduced and studied a power series whose coefficients are probabilities of the generalized distribution such that
where
S denotes the sum of the convergent series of the form:
and
(see also [
7]).
Here, for convenience, (
3) is expressed in terms of analytic
p-valent functions, such that
By convolution or Hadamard product of two analytic functions
f and
h, we mean that
where
and
.
Using the concept defined above using (4) and (5), an analytic function
is introduced such that
Suppose that
of the form (1) is given. Then
f is called starlike, respectively, convex of order
denoted by
and
, if the following geometric conditions are satisfied
and
Furthermore, let
f and
g be starlike of order
, meaning that
. Then
f is said to belong to the class of close-to-convex functions of order
type
, denoted by
, if the following geometric condition is satisfied:
Similarly,
f is said to belong to the class of spiralike function
if the following condition is satisfied
The aforementioned geometric conditions (
7)–(
10) have the following equivalents, respectively:
and
The subclasses that follow have been studied repeatedly by various authors (see [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14] among others) from different perspectives, and several interesting results were obtained.
Let
h be univalent in
U and
f analytic in
U, then
f is said to be subordinate to
h, written as
, if there exists a Schwartz function
, which is analytic in
U, with
and
for all
such that
. Further, let
h be univalent in
U, then the following equivalent holds true
Interesting results involving subordination theory can be seen in [
13,
15,
16,
17,
18], among others.
Now, let
denote the class of all analytic and univalent functions
in
U for which
is convex with
and
,
. For function
of the form
, Makinde [
19] defined a linear transformation
, such that
where
and
or
Further, for
, ref. [
19] introduced and studied the subclasses of starlike, convex and close-to-convex functions
and
, respectively, as
In addition to these, we define the spiralike class of analytic function
such that
Furthermore, Alexander in [
20] introduced and studied an integral operator
such that
for details, see [
8,
21,
22], among others.
Further, Libera [
15] defined an integral operator
such that
This operator is the solution of the first-order linear differential equation:
Obviously, the Libera integral operator is the convolution of the function
given by (
1), and the functions
. That is,
Libera integral operator given by (
18) maps each of the subclasses of the starlike, convex and close-to-convex functions into itself, which makes the Libera integral operator symmetric in nature. Therefore, if
is close-to-convex with respect to the starlike function
,
and
, then
L is close-to-convex with respect to
G (see [
11]). Libera integral operator preserves the starlike functions of order
,
and convex functions of order
. It has been established that Libera integral operator converges uniformly, which makes it asymptotic in nature, and coupled with the fact that it is a bounded operator, it is fractional in nature.
Furthermore, certain aspects regarding the convexity of the Libera integral operator were proven in [
23], and new operators were defined using it in [
24,
25].
In particular, the operator
is defined as follows:
It is worth noting that the operator
, given by (
19), generalized the previously defined Libera operator (see [
11,
13,
16,
21,
22], among others).
Here, for
of the form (
6), the function
is introduced as follows:
In
Section 3 of the present work, using Equation (
20), having considered the extended Libera operator
, where
we define and study, in terms of the generalized distribution function, the relationship between the properties of the subclasses of starlike functions
, convex functions
, close-to-convex functions
and spiralike functions
such that
and
At this juncture, the following Lemmas shall be necessary (see [
13,
14,
15] to mention but a few).
Lemma 1 ([
13]).
Let be convex and univalent in U with and Re. If r is analytic in U with , thenwhich implies that Lemma 2 ([
13]).
Let be convex and univalent in U with . If r is analytic in U with , thenwhich implies that In
Section 2 of the paper, neighborhood properties will be discussed involving the function defined in relation (
6). The additional already known results used for the proofs are given at the beginning of
Section 2.
Section 3 presents some results involving the concept of subordination and the extended Libera operator given in relation (
21). The theorems stated there prove the starlikeness, convexity and close-to-convexity characteristics of this operator.
2. Neighborhood of Analytic P-Valent Function Associated with the Generalized Distribution
Next, some results on the neighborhood of the analytic p-valent function associated with the famous generalized probability distribution are presented.
Before proceeding to the main results, the following definitions shall be considered.
Let
, then we say that
is
neighborhood for
if it satisfies the condition that
for
,
and
. It implies that
.
Similarly, we say that
if it satisfies the condition that
For recent work in this direction, refer to [
17,
26,
27], among others.
Theorem 1. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , and , then . Proof. From (
22), it is observed that
Now, suppose that
then we conclude that
Therefore, . □
Consider the following example:
Example 1. Therefore, .
Corollary 1. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , and , then . Corollary 2. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , then . Corollary 3. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , and and arg , then . Proof. From Theorem 1, we have that
if
Since arg − arg , if arg , then arg .
Therefore,
and this obviously ends the proof. □
Corollary 4. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , and and arg , then . Theorem 2. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , and , then . Proof. It is easily seen from (
23) that
Since
then, we conclude that
Therefore, . □
Corollary 5. Let satisfy the inequalityfor and , then . Corollary 6. Let satisfy the inequalityfor , then . Theorem 3. Let and , . Then Proof. Let
, then
for all
. Further, suppose that we consider
z such that
We observe that, for this kind of point
It implies that
for
. That is,
Letting
, then
and this completes the proof. □
3. Some Results on the Application of a Multiplier Transformation to Libera Integral Operator
Theorem 4. Suppose that and let with . Further, let , then .
Proof. If
, then we have:
Now, let
where
r is analytic in
U with
.
From (
16) and (
21), it is observed that
With the aid of (
28) and (
29), we obtain
Differentiating (
30) logarithmically with respect to
z and using (
28), we have
Simple computations of (
31) yields
We obtain the desired result by applying Lemma 1 to (
32) while taking
and
. □
Theorem 5. Suppose that and let with . Further, let , then .
Proof. Since
if and only if
. Now, let
, then we obtain:
Suppose that we set
with
r being analytic in
U while
, then relating (
16) and (
21) with (
34), we obtain
Differentiating (
35) logarithmically with respect to
z yields
Using (
34) and (
35) we obtain
Simple computation of (
37) easily yields
Using (
24), (
36), Lemma 1, and taking
and
, we have shown that
and that completes the proof. □
Theorem 6. Let and let with Re. If , then, .
Proof. Let
, then there exist a function
such that
Setting
while
r is analytic in
U with
, then using (
16) and (
21) with (
40), we have
which yields
Since
implies that
. Then from Theorem 4 and (
16) we can write that
and
respectively.
Now, using (
43) in (
44) we obtain
while simple computations from (
42) and (
45) yields
Finally, by taking
while relating (
43) and (
46) and applying Lemma 2, we obtain the desired result. □
Theorem 7. Let and with . Further, let , then .
Proof. If
, then we have
Let
where
r is analytic in
U with
.
Recall that from (
16) and (
21), we can write that
Now, appealing to (
48) and (
49), we obtain
Differentiating (
50) logarithmically with respect to
z yields
Multiplying through (
51) by
, we have
Applying (
48) in (
52), we have
It is easily verified from (
53) that
Now, taking
and
while relating (
54) and (
48) with Lemma 1, the desired result follows. □
4. Conclusions
The study performed in the present paper is related to the intensely investigated class of
p-valent functions. The tools involved in the study are convolution, generalized distribution, Libera integral operator and extended forms of this operator, special classes of univalent functions and the theory of differential subordination. Applying the concept of Hadamard product or convolution, in relation (
6), a new function
is defined using the generalized distribution. Using a linear transformation
given by (
15) and (
16), introduced in [
19], the spiralike class of analytic function
is introduced following the pattern set in [
19] where the classes of starlike, convex and close-to-convex functions were previously defined. Furthermore, using the same linear transformation
and the previously defined generalized Libera operator given in (
19), a new generalized Libera-type operator is introduced in (
21) involving function
given by (
6). Investigations on neighborhood properties of function
are conducted in
Section 2 of the paper. The theorems proven have illustrations through corollaries, and an example is also presented. In
Section 3, the new generalized Libera-type operator introduced in (
21) is investigated, and the theorems prove that under certain conditions, it has starlikeness, convexity, close-to-convexity and spiralike properties.
In future directions of study, the function defined by (
6) could be used related to other operators, such as the linear transformation
and obtain potentially interesting operators, which could be further used in different studies for obtaining geometrical properties or for introducing subclasses of univalent functions. Further, the operator given by (
21) can be used for investigations, which could lead to introducing new subclasses of univalent functions considering the starlikeness, convexity, close-to-convexity and spiralike properties proven in
Section 3.