1. Introduction
Let denote the class of all functions, normalized by
which are analytic in the unit disc .
Definition 3. [1]
For , Opoola introduced the following operator:
If is given by (), then from (2), we see that
, and .
Remark 1.
- When , , by Salagean [2],
- When , by Al-Oboudi [3].
Definition 1.
Let denote the class of functions of the form:
which are analytic and multivalent in the open unit disc We define the following differential operator for the functions
If is given by (), then from (5), we see that
, and .
Let denote the subclass of consisting of functions of the form
If is given by Eq. (), then from Eq. (5), we get
Remark 2.
When in (), defined by
Bulut in [4]. Now, from (), it follows that can be written in terms of
Convolution as
where is as in (), while
Definition 2.
A function is in the class if
for some , ,,, as defined in ().
Remark 3.
When in (),the class reduces to the class studied by Bulut in [4].
Definition 4. [5, 6]
The fractional integral of order is defined, for function by
where is an analytic function in a simply connected region of -plane containing the origin,and the multiplicity of is removed by requiring to be real when .
Definition 5. [5, 6]
The fractional derivative of order is defined, for function by
where is an analytic function in a simply connected region of -plane containing the origin,and the multiplicity of is removed by requiring to be real when .
Definition 6. [5, 6]
Under the hypothesis of Definition 4, the fractional derivative of order is defined for functions , by
It readily follows from () and () that
and
Lemma 1.[7]
If and are analytic in with , then for and , , then
In this work, several properties of the class are studied, such as coefficient inequalities, hadamard product, radii of close-to-convex, star-likeness, convexity, extreme points, the integral mean inequalities for the fractional derivatives, and further growth and distortion theorem are given using fractional calculus techniques. For more research on classes of multivalent or p-valent functions, see [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,14, 15, 16, 17, 18]
2. Main results
Theorem 1.
A function is in the class if and only if
for some , ,,. The result is sharp for the function given by
Proof
Suppose that , then we have from () that
By substitution, we have
Since then
If we choose real and let , then we get
Conversely, suppose that the inequality () holds true and that
and suppose that
Since by maximum modulus theorem ,that the maximum modulus of an analytic function cannot be attained inside the domain but on the boundary, implies
i.e.,
So,
implies
Hence, we have that
Corollary 1.
If , then
Theorem 2.
The class is a class of convex functions.
Proof
Let the functions
be in the class , then for
where , then making use of (), we see that
implies , which completes the proof.
Theorem 3.
If each of the functions and is in the class , then
,
where
.
Proof
From (), we have
and
We need to find the smallest such that
From () and (), we find by means of Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities that
Thus, it is enough to show that
That is
On the other hand, from (), we have
Therefore, in view of () and (), it is enough to show that
i.e.,
where . So,
implies
implies
Also
implies
Theorem 4.
If , then is p-valently close-to-convex of order in , where
Proof
Let , then
implies
Since
hence, () is true if
Solving () for , we obtain
Hence, the proof.
Theorem 5.
If ,then is p-valently starlike of order in , where
Proof
Let , then
The inequality
Since
i.e.,
Since
This holds true if
hence, the proof.
Theorem 6.
If , then is p-valently convex of order in , where
Proof
Let , then
The inequality
So,
implies
implies
Since
.
This is true if
hence, the proof.
Theorem 7.
Let
then, if and only if it can be expressed in the form
where and =.
Proof
Assume that
, then
implies
Thus,
which shows that satisfies condition () and therefore,
Conversely, suppose that , since
we may set
then we obtain from ,
i.e.,
implies
This completes the proof.
Corollary 2.
The extreme points of are given by;
Theorem 8.
Let and suppose that
for some , , denotes the pochhammer symbol defined by Also, let the function
If there exists an analytic function defined by
with
\begin{align*}\Psi (j) =\frac{\Gamma (j-q)}{\Gamma (j+1-l-q)},& & (0\le l0\) and , ,
Proof
Let By means of () and Definition 6, we have
where
Since is a decreasing function of , we get
Similarly, from (), (), and Definition 6, we have
For some and , , we show that
so, by applying Lemma 1, it is enough to show that
If the above subordination holds true, then we have an analytic function
with , , such that
By the condition of the Theorem, we define the function by
which readily yields . For such a function , we have
By means of the hypothesis of the theorem, the result is proved.
As a special case , we have following results from Theorem 8.
Corollary 3.
Let and suppose that
if there exists an analytic function defined by
with
\begin{align*}\psi(j)=\frac{\Gamma(j)}{\Gamma(j+1-l)},& & (0\le l0\) and ,\;\;\;
Letting , we have the following from Theorem 8.
Corollary 4.
Let and suppose that
if there exists an analytic function define by
with
\begin{align*} \psi(j)=\frac{\Gamma(j-1)}{\Gamma(j-l)},& & (0\le l0\) and ,
Theorem 9.
If , then we have
and
Proof
Suppose that , using Theorem 1, we find that
implies
i.e.,
From (), if ,
implies
where
Clearly, is a decreasing function of and we get
Using () and (), we obtain,
which is equivalent to assertion () and
which completes the proof.
Theorem 10.
If , then we have
and
Proof
If , then
implies
where
Clearly, is a decreasing function of and we get
Using () and (), we obtain,
which is equivalent to assertion ().
Similarly,
which completes the proof.
Corollary 5.
If , then we have
Proof
From Definition 4, we have
Therefore, setting in (), we obtain
and
i.e.,
which is (57).
Corollary 6.
If , then we have
Proof
From Definition 4, we have
Therefore, setting in (), we obtain
and
i.e.,
which is ().
Acknowledgments :
The authors acknowledge the management of the University of Ilorin for providing us with a suitable research laboratory and library to enable us carried out this research.
Conflicts of Interest:
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