In this paper, we introduce and investigate two new subclasses and of Ma-Minda bi-univalent functions defined by using subordination in the open unit disk . For functions belonging to these new subclasses, we obtain estimates for the initial coefficients and . The results presented in this paper would generalize those in related works of several earlier authors.
MSC:30C45, 30C80.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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All authors jointly worked on the results and they read and approved the final manuscript.
Dedication
Dedicated to Professor Hari M Srivastava
1 Introduction
Let C be a set of complex numbers and let be a set of positive integers. Let A be a class of functions of the form
(1.1)
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which are analytic in the open unit disk . Also, let S denote a subclass of all functions in A which are univalent in D (for details, see [1, 2]).
Since univalent functions are one-to-one, they are invertible and the inverse functions need not be defined on the entire unit disk D. However, the famous Koebe one-quarter theorem [1] ensures that the image of the unit disk D under every function contains a disk of radius 1/4. Thus, every univalent function has an inverse satisfying
and
where
(1.2)
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A function is said to be bi-univalent in D if both f and are univalent in D. Let σ denote the class of bi-univalent functions defined in the unit disk D. In 1967, Lewin [3] first introduced the class σ of bi-univalent functions and showed that for every . Subsequently, Branan and Clunie [4] conjectured that for . Later, Netanyahu [5] proved that . The coefficient estimate problem for each of () is still an open problem.
Brannan and Taha [6] (see also [7]) introduced certain subclasses of a bi-univalent function class σ similar to the familiar subclasses and of starlike and convex functions of order α (), respectively (see [8]). Thus, following Brannan and Taha [6] (see also [7]), a function is in the class of strongly bi-starlike functions of order α () if both functions f and are strongly starlike functions of order α. The classes and of bi-starlike functions of order α and bi-convex functions of order α, corresponding (respectively) to the function classes and , were also introduced analogously. For each of the function classes and , they found non-sharp estimates on the first two Taylor-Maclaurin coefficients and (for details, see [6, 7]).
An analytic function f is subordinate to an analytic function g, written , if there is an analytic function w with such that . If g is univalent, then if and only if and . Ma and Minda [9] unified various subclasses of starlike and convex functions for which either of the quantities or is subordinate to a more general superordinate function. For this purpose, they considered an analytic function φ with positive real part in the unit disk D, , , and φ maps D onto a region starlike with respect to 1 and symmetric with respect to the real axis. The classes and of Ma-Minda starlike and Ma-Minda convex functions are respectively characterized by or . A function f is bi-starlike of Ma-Minda type or bi-convex of Ma-Minda type if both f and are respectively Ma-Minda starlike or convex. These classes are denoted respectively by and . Recently, Srivastava et al. [10], Frasin and Aouf [11] and Caglar et al. [12] introduced and investigated various subclasses of bi-univalent functions and found estimates on the coefficients and for functions in these classes. Very recently, Ali et al. [13], Kumar et al. [14], Srivastava et al. [15] and Xu et al.[16] unified and extended some related results in [7, 10‐12, 17] by generalizing their classes using subordination.
Motivated by Ali et al. [13] and Kumar et al. [14], we investigate the estimates for the initial coefficients and of bi-univalent functions of Ma-Minda type belonging to the classes and defined in Section 2. Our results generalize several well-known results in [10‐14] and these are also pointed out.
2 Coefficient estimates
Throughout this paper, we assume that φ is an analytic univalent function with positive real part in D, is symmetric with respect to the real axis and starlike with respect to , and . Such a function has series expansion of the form
(2.1)
With this assumption on φ, we now introduce the following subclasses of Ma-Minda bi-univalent functions.
Definition 2.1 A function given by (1.1) is said to be in the class if it satisfies
(2.2)
and
(2.3)
where the function g is given by
(2.4)
We note that, for suitable choices λ, μ and φ, the class reduces to the following known classes.
(1)
(, , ) (see Caglar et al. [[12], Definition 2.1]);
(2)
(, , ) (see Caglar et al. [[12], Definition 3.1]);
For functions in the class , the following estimates are obtained.
Theorem 2.1Let the functionfgiven by (1.1) be in the class , and . Then
(2.5)
and
(2.6)
Proof Since , there exist two analytic functions , with , such that
(2.7)
and
(2.8)
Define the functions p and q by
(2.9)
or, equivalently,
(2.10)
and
(2.11)
It is clear that p and q are analytic in D and . Since , the functions p and q have positive real part in D, and hence and (). By virtue of (2.7), (2.8), (2.10) and (2.11), we have
(2.12)
and
(2.13)
Using (2.10), (2.11), together with (2.1), we easily obtain
(2.14)
and
(2.15)
Since has the Maclaurin series given by (1.1), a computation shows that its inverse has the expansion given by (1.2). Also, since
it follows from (2.12)-(2.15) that
(2.16)
(2.17)
(2.18)
and
(2.19)
From (2.16) and (2.18), we get
(2.20)
and
(2.21)
Also, from (2.17) and (2.19), we obtain
or
(2.22)
Since and (), it follows from (2.21) and (2.22) that
(2.23)
and
(2.24)
which yields the desired estimate on as asserted in (2.5).
Next, in order to find the bound on , by subtracting (2.19) from (2.17), we get
(2.25)
Using (2.20) and (2.21) in (2.25), we have
which evidently yields
(2.26)
On the other hand, by using (2.20) and (2.22) in (2.25), we obtain
(2.27)
and applying and () for (2.27), we get
(2.28)
Now, we consider the bounds on according to μ.
Case 1. If , then from (2.28)
(2.29)
Case 2. If , then from (2.28)
(2.30)
Thus, from (2.26), (2.29) and (2.30), we obtain the desired estimate on given in (2.6). This completes the proof of Theorem 2.1. □
Putting and in Theorem 2.1, we respectively get the following Corollaries 2.1 and 2.2.
Corollary 2.1If (), then
and
Corollary 2.2If , then
and
Remark 2.1 The estimates of the coefficients and of Corollaries 2.1 and 2.2 are the improvement of the estimates obtained in [[14], Theorem 2.1] and [[13], Theorem 2.1], respectively.
Remark 2.2 If we set
in Corollaries 2.1 and 2.2, the results obtained improve the results in [[11], Theorem 3.2, inequalities (3.3) and (3.4)] and [[10], Theorem 2, inequality (3.3)], respectively.
Definition 2.2 Let , and . A function given by (1.1) is said to be in the class , if the following subordinations hold:
and
where the function g is defined by (2.4).
We note that, by choosing appropriate values for λ, μ, γ and φ, the class reduces to several earlier known classes.
in Corollaries 2.4 and 2.5, we obtain the results of Brannan and Taha [[6], Theorems 2.1, 3.1 and 4.1, respectively].
Acknowledgements
The present investigation was partly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of People’s Republic of China under Grant 11271045, the Higher School Doctoral Foundation of People’s Republic of China under Grant 20100003110004 and the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia of People’s Republic of China under Grant 2010MS0117. The authors are thankful to the referees for their careful reading and making some helpful comments which have essentially improved the presentation of this paper.
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Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors’ contributions
All authors jointly worked on the results and they read and approved the final manuscript.