Starlikeness Properties of a New Integral Operator for Meromorphic Functions
Abstract
We define here an integral operator for meromorphic functions in the punctured open unit disk. Several starlikeness conditions for the integral operator are derived.
1. Introduction
Analogous to the integral operator defined by Breaz et al. [1] on the normalized analytic functions, we now define the following integral operator on the space meromorphic functions in the class ∑.
Definition 1.1. Let n ∈ ℕ, γi > 0, i ∈ {1,2, 3, …, n}. We define the integral operator by
By , we denote the class of functions f ∈ Σ such that
Lemma 1.2 (see [2].)Suppose that the function Ψ : ℂ2 → ℂ satisfies the following condition:
2. Starlikeness of the Operator
In this section, we investigate sufficient conditions for the integral operator which is defined in Definition 1.1, to be in the class Σ*(α), 0 ≤ α < 1.
Theorem 2.1. Let fi ∈ ∑, γi > 0 for all i ∈ {1, …, n}. If
Proof. On successive differentiation of , which is defined in (1.5), we get
Theorem 2.2. For i ∈ {1, …, n}, let γi > 0 and fi ∈ Σk(αi) (0 ≤ αi < 1). If be the integral operator given by (1.5) and
Proof. Following the same steps as in Theorem 2.1, we obtain
Letting αi = α, i ∈ {1, …, n} in Theorem 2.2, we get the following.
Corollary 2.3. For i ∈ {1, …, n}, let γi > 0 and fi ∈ Σk(α) (0 ≤ α < 1). If
Theorem 2.4. For i ∈ {1, …, n}, let γi > 0 and . If
Proof. Following the same steps as in Theorem 2.1, we obtain
Letting βi = β, i ∈ {1, …, n} in Theorem 2.4, we get the following.
Corollary 2.5. For i ∈ {1, …, n}, let γi > 0 and . If
Letting n = 1, γ1 = γ and f1 = f in Corollary 2.5, we get the following.
Corollary 2.6. Let γ > 0, and . If
Other work related to integral operator for different studies can also be found in [4–6].
Acknowledgments
The work here was supported by MOHE Grant: UKM-ST-06-FRGS0244-2010. The authors also would like to thank the referee for his/her careful reading and making some valuable comments which have improved the presentation of this paper.