1. Introduction, Motivations and Definitions
Let
consist of all holomorphic functions
normalized by
and
Let
be the class of all functions defined by
which are analytic and univalent in
. A domain
is called as starlike with respect to a point
if the line segment joining
to every other point
lies entirely in
D. A function
is called starlike if
is a starlike domain with respect to the origin. The class of univalent starlike functions is denoted by
. A domain
is called as convex if the line segment joining any two arbitrary points of
D lies entirely in
D, i.e., if it is starlike with respect to each point of
D. A function
is said to be convex in
if
is a convex domain. The class of all univalent convex functions is denoted by
. Many times the analytic criteria of the above two functions provide a useful technique in analyzing the concepts and are as follows: a function
is called as a starlike function of order
if and only if
The family of all starlike functions of order
is denoted by
It is clear that for
,
Also, for
,
A function
is called as a convex function of order
if and only if
The family of all convex functions of order
is denoted by
It is clear that for
,
A function
of the form (
1) is called as a close-to-convex function if there exists a function
such that
The family of all close-to-convex functions is denoted by
Although the class of close-to-convex functions was introduced by Kaplan [
1] in 1952, Ozaki [
2] introduced the class
familiarly known as the Ozaki-close-to-convex function, which is defined as follows: a function
G given in the form (
1) belongs to the class
if
G satisfies the condition
or
We observe that
follows from the original definition of Kaplan [
1], while Umezawa [
3] proved that functions in
are not necessarily starlike but are convex in one direction. Singh and Singh [
4] proved that functions in
are close-to-convex and bounded in
Let
denote the class of locally univalent normalized analytic functions
f in the unit disk, satisfying the condition
for some
If
; then,
Also,
The functions of the class
are known to be univalent and close-to-convex in
Note that the class
plays an important role in determining the univalence criteria for sense-preserving harmonic mappings. The functions of the class
are non-empty because it is very easy to see that the function
, defined by
belongs to the class
The family of all Ozaki-type close-to-convex functions denoted by is defined as:
Definition 1. A function given by (1) is called Ozaki-type close-to-convex if and only ifwhere For more details, one may see [
5,
6,
7] and also [
8,
9]. Paatero [
10] introduced the class
of functions with bounded turning. If a function
satisfies
then there exists a non-decreasing function
with bounded variation in
and satisfying
such that
Connection between the class
and the class
of functions with positive real part is stated in the following lemma that has been established earlier by Pinchuk [
11].
Lemma 1. A function if and only if ∃ such that A function
if and only if there exists a function
such that
The class
was introduced and investigated by Padmanabhan and Parvatham [
12]. A function that is analytic and locally univalent in a given simply connected domain is said to be of bounded boundary rotation if its range has bounded boundary rotation, which is defined as the total variation in the direction angle of the tangent to the boundary curve under a complete circuit. Let
denote the family of functions
G that map the unit disc
conformally onto an image domain
of bounded boundary rotation at most
Umarani [
13] introduced class
functions of bounded boundary rotation of complex order
We say a function
, where
b is a non-zero complex number if
Umarani [
13] showed that a function
if and only if there exists a function
such that
For the choice of
b, the class
reduces to the following important subclasses
- (i)
For
,
, and the well-known class of functions of bounded boundary rotation at most
was introduced by Paatero [
10].
- (ii)
For
we have
, introduced by Padmanabhan and Parvatham [
12].
A function
is said to be in the class
the class
of functions with bounded radius rotations (introduced by Tammi [
14]), if for
The integral representation for functions
is given by
where
is a non-decreasing function with bounded variation in
and satisfying
Pinchuk [
11] showed that an Alexander-type relation between the classes
and
exists and is given by
Lehto [
15] (see [
16]) proved that for the function
given in the form (
1)
Schiffer and Tammi [
17] proved that for the function
given in the form (
1),
Following the work of Brannan [
18], who proved that
is a subclass of the class
of the close-to-convex functions of order
, Koepf [
19] showed that
is a subclass of the class
of the
k-fold symmetric close-to-convex functions of order
. This leads to the solution to the coefficient problem for
k-fold symmetric functions of bounded boundary rotation when
. Moreover, for
,
consists of close-to-convex functions and, hence, are univalent functions. Further, Leach [
20] investigated the concept of odd univalent functions with bounded boundary rotation, and this was extended to
k-fold symmetric functions by the same author a little later in the same year, and for details, one may look at [
21].
The Koebe one-quarter theorem [
22] ensures that the image of
under every univalent function
contains a disk of radius
Thus, every univalent function
G has an inverse
, satisfying
and
The inverse
may have an analytic continuation to
, where
where
A function
is called as bi-univalent in
if both
G and its inverse
belong to the class
Indicate
to be the family of all bi-univalent functions in
. The family
is non-empty as the functions
,
and
are in the family
. It is interesting that the famous Koebe function
does not belong to the family
The family of bi-univalent functions was investigated for the first time by Lewin [
23], who obtained a non-sharp bound
. This was followed by Brannan and Clunie [
18] and Brannan and Taha [
24], who worked on certain subclasses of the bi-univalent functions and obtained bounds for their initial coefficients. The study of bi-univalent functions gained concentration as well as thrust mainly due to the investigation of Srivastava et al. [
25] and was followed by many authors.
In the current article, we introduce Ozaki-type close-to-convex functions with bounded boundary rotation denoted by . Examples showing that the class is non-empty are discussed. The authors also derive many interesting connections between the class and and . Finally, a new subclass of bi-univalent functions with bounded boundary and bounded radius rotation is introduced. For the class , the authors obtain interesting first two initial non-sharp coefficient bounds.
2. Ozaki Close-to-Convex Functions with Bounded Boundary Rotation
We start this section by introducing a new class of Ozaki-type close-to-convex functions with bounded boundary rotation and is defined as follows.
Definition 2. Let and A function G given in the form (1) is called as Ozaki-type close-to-convex with bounded boundary rotation if G satisfies the following conditionThe family of all Ozaki-type close-to-convex functions with bounded boundary rotation is denoted by Remark 1. (i) If then , which consists of functions of bounded boundary rotation introduced in [11]. - (ii)
If then consists of Ozaki-type close-to-convex functions.
- (iii)
If and then , which consists of convex functions introduced in [26].
Here, we show that the class is non-empty by providing a few examples.
Examples of functions belonging to the class .
Example 1. The function is defined byStraightforward computations shows thatSinceTherefore, Hence, the function Example 2. The function is defined byStraightforward computations shows thatSinceTherefore, Hence, the function Example 3. The function is defined by Example 4. The function is defined by The images of the function
and
under unit disk
are shown as below in
Figure 1.
Similarly, the images of the function
and
under unit disk
are shown as below in
Figure 2.
Next, we prove new interesting properties of the class , stated as Theorems 1–10.
We start with proving an integral representation theorem.
2.1. Integral Representation of
Theorem 1. If thenwhere ν is a non-decreasing function with bounded variation in and satisfying Proof. Since
there exists an analytic function
belonging to the class
such that
Equation (
9) can be written as
Since
by the representation theorem given by Paatero [
10], there exists a non-decreasing function
with bounded variation in
and satisfying
such that
Therefore,
From (
10) and (
11), we obtain (
8). The proof of Theorem 1 is hence completed. □
2.2. Relation between and
Theorem 2. Let and A function if ∃ a function such that Proof. Since
there exists an analytic function
belonging to the class
such that
Since,
there exists
such that
From (
13) and (
14), we obtain
Upon integrating (
15), we obtain (
12). The proof of Theorem 2 is thus completed. □
We know that a function
if and only if
Hence,
if and only if
From Theorem 2 and (
16), we obtain the following result.
2.3. Relation between and
Theorem 3. Let and A function if ∃ a function such that 2.4. Relation between and
Theorem 4. Let and A function if ∃ functions such that Proof. Since
∃ is an analytic function
that belongs to the class
such that
Since
, from Lemma 1, then ∃
such that
Since
, there exist functions
such that
Hence, from (
19)–(
21), we obtain
Upon Integrating (
22), we obtain (
18). This completes the proof of Theorem 4. □
Since we know that a function if and only if and , using Theorem 4, we have the following result.
2.5. Relation between and
Theorem 5. For and A function if ∃ functions such that Based on Equations (
2)–(
4), we have the following results, and they are stated by omitting the proof.
Theorem 6. Let and A function if
- (i)
∃ a function such that
- (ii)
∃ a function such that
- (iii)
∃ a function such that
Theorem 7. Let and If a function then for Proof. Since
then from Theorem 1, we have
where
is a non-decreasing function with bounded variation in
and satisfying
Let us take
. Then,
Since
is a non-decreasing functions with bounded variation in
, we can write
, where both
and
are non-decreasing functions with bounded variation in
and satisfying
Here, we can write
To prove the lower bound, it is sufficient to show that
If
then
and
Therefore, we have
Hence, we obtain
The proof of Theorem 7 is thus finished. □
Theorem 8. If a function given in the form (1) belongs to the class thenand Proof. Since
then from Theorem 2 ∃
such that
where
Hence, from (
28) and (
29), we obtain
and
Using (
5) in (
30), (
31) and (
6) in (
32), we obtain (
25)–(
27), respectively, which essentially completes the proof of Theorem 8. □
Remark 2. (i) For Theorem 8 verifies the bounds of and obtained by Letho [15]. - (ii)
For Theorem 8 verifies the bound of obtained by Schiffer and Tammi [17].
Theorem 9. If then the function defined byalso belongs to Proof. Since
then from Theorem 2, ∃
such that
Robertson [
27] showed that if
then
defined by
which also belongs to
. Therefore, we obtain
The proof of Theorem 9 is thus completed. □
Theorem 10. If and then G is univalent in and Proof. If
then
given in (
33) belongs to
By differentiating (
33) with respect to
and substituting
we obtain
Therefore,
By using the bound of
given in (
25) and replacing
d by
we have
Equation (
37) can be rewritten as
If
then according to Ahlfors [
28] univalence criterion,
G is univalent in
Equation (
38) gives (
36). The proof of Theorem 10 is hence finished. □
Theorem 11. If then for , we have Proof. Since
then from Theorem 2, ∃
such that
Brannan [
29] showed that a function if
and
then
Equations (
40) and (
41) gives (
39). □
4. Concluding Remarks and Observations
In the current article, we introduced a new subclass of univalent functions with bounded boundary rotation. Many interesting examples are constructed for the class Interesting connections between the class and the familiar classes of starlike, convex and convex functions of bounded boundary rotation and starlike functions of bounded radius rotation are obtained. Following the interesting connection, the first three coefficient bounds for the new subclass were derived. Furthermore, the authors also introduced a new subclass of bi-univalent functions associated with bounded boundary rotation. For the new class , the authors obtained new initial two coefficient estimates. Apart from the new interesting coefficient estimates, the established coefficient estimates also generalize the earlier existing results.
Finally, the study considered in this article can be extended by taking different types of convolution operators existing in the literature. Also, similar types of results can be investigated for interesting special functions.