1. Introduction
Define
as a class of analytic functions
of the form
where
:
.
Let
, and
be the subclasses of
, which are composed of univalent functions, starlike functions, and convex functions, respectively [
1,
2].
Let
denote the class of analytic functions
of the following form:
The function is called a Carathéodory function.
Suppose that the functions
and
are analytic in
. The function
is said to be subordinate to the function
if there exists a function
satisfying
, such that
. Note that
. In particular, if
is univalent in
, the following conclusion follows (see [
1]):
In 1994, Ma and Minda [
3] introduced the classes
and
of starlike functions and convex functions by using subordination. The function
iff
and the function
iff
, where
and
.
Let
and
. The classes
and
are the classes of Janowski starlike and convex functions, respectively (refer to [
4]).
and
are known for the classes of starlike and convex functions, respectively.
In 1959, Sakaguchi [
5] introduced the class
of starlike functions with respect to symmetric points. The function
if and only if
In 1987, El Ashwah and Thomas [
6] introduced the classes
and
of starlike functions with respect to conjugate points and symmetric conjugate points as follows:
Similarly to the previous section, the classes and can be further generalized to the classes and .
The function belongs to if and only if holds true, and belongs to if and only if holds true, where and .
If the function meets the following criteria——then is said to be in the class of the reciprocal starlike functions of order , which is represented by .
In contrast to the classical starlike function class
of order
, the reciprocal starlike function class of order
maps the unit disk to a starlike region within a disk with
as the center and
as the radius [
7]. In particular, the disk is large when
. Therefore, the study of the class of reciprocal starlike functions has aroused the research interest of most scholars [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13]. In 2012, Sun et al. [
8] extended the reciprocal starlike function to the class of the meromorphic univalent function.
As a generalization of the analytic function, the harmonic function has become one of the key branches in complex analysis because of the study of the minimal surface of parameters in differential geometry. After more than 20 years of development, harmonic function theory has been widely used in fluid dynamics, mathematical physics equations, and image processing, and it is also a powerful tool for studying minimal surfaces in differential geometry.
For the analytic functions
and
, let
be a class of harmonic mappings that has the following form (see [
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19]):
where
Specifically, is referred to as the analytical part, and is known as the co-analytic part of f.
It is known that the function
is locally univalent and sense-preserving in
if and only if
(see [
20]).
Based on these results, it is possible to obtain the geometric properties of the co-analytic part by means of the analytic part of the harmonic function.
In the last few years, different subclasses of have been studied by several authors.
In 2007, Klimek and Michalski [
21] investigated the subclass
with
.
In 2014, Hotta and Michalski [
22] investigated the subclass
with
.
In 2015, Zhu and Huang [
23] investigated the subclasses of
with
and
.
Combined with the above studies, by using the subordination relationship, this paper further constructs the reciprocal-structure harmonic function class with symmetric conjugate points as follows.
Definition 1. Let be in the class of the Form (4) and let . We define the class as that of univalent harmonic reciprocal starlike functions with a symmetric conjugate point; the function if and only if , that is, In addition, let define the class of harmonic univalent reciprocal convex functions with a symmetric conjugate point. The function if and only if , that is, In this paper, we discuss the geometric properties of these classes, such as the integral expression, coefficient estimation, distortion theorem, Jacobian estimation, growth estimate, and covering theorem. In order to show the geometric properties of the function more intuitively, we give the corresponding function image. The conclusion has enriched the field of research on harmonic functions.
2. Preliminary Preparation
To obtain our results, we need the following Lemmas.
Lemma 1 ([
24]).
Let γ be a complex number. If the function is analytic in , satisfies , and is of the form , thenand According to the subordination relationship, we get the integral expression of the classes and as follows.
Lemma 2. Let .
- (1)
If then and ϖ is analytic in , satisfying .
- (2)
If then where is given by (8) and ϖ is analytic in , satisfying .
Proof. Let
belong to the class
. According to Definition 1 and the subordination principle, there exists an analytic function
in
that satisfies
such that
By replacing
z in (9) with
, we get
By combining (9) and (10), the following formula can be established:
We integrate both sides of Equation (
11) and make a simple calculation to get the following result:
From (9) and (12), we have
We integrate both sides of Equation (
13) again, and we get
According to (7), we have if and only if . So, we can easily get (8). □
Lemma 3. Let and .
- (1)
If then In particular, and .
- (2)
If then In particular, and .
In particular, if and , we get the following conclusion.
- (1)
If then The estimate is sharp if , and a graph of this function is shown in Figure 1. In the figure, the complex function is represented by the three-dimensional coordinate system plus color; the -axis represents the real part of the variable z; the -axis represents the imaginary part of the variable z; the -axis represents the real part of the function , and the color represents the imaginary part of the function . In Figure 2, the range of the function is shown, with the -axis representing the real part of the function and the -axis representing the imaginary part of the function . - (2)
If then
Proof. First, we prove the first part of Lemma 3. Let
, and there exists a positive real function
with
that satisfies the following condition:
By comparing the coefficients of the two sides of the equation, the following conclusions are drawn:
and
It is easy to prove that
and
From (19) and (20), we have
and
According to (19)–(22), we can obtain (14) and (15), that is,
and
The second part of Lemma 3 is shown below. Let
. Similarly to the previous proof, we can obtain
where
is a positive real function with
.
By comparing the coefficients of the two sides of the equation, we can get the following results:
It is easy to see that
and
From (23) and (24), we have
and
According to (23)–(26), we can obtain (16) and (17), that is,
and
□
Lemma 4. Let .
- (1)
If , then - (2)
If , then In particular, if , we have the following results:
- (1)
If , then The estimate is sharp if or .
- (2)
If , then The estimate is sharp if or .
Proof. Let
. According to Definition 1 and the subordination principle, there exists an analytic function
in
that satisfies
such that
By comparing the coefficients of the two sides of Equation (
29), we get the following results:
Applying Lemma 1, we get (27). The extremal function is as follows:
or
If
, then
. It is easy to obtain (28), and the bound is sharp, as shown in the following:
or
□
Lemma 5. Let and .
- (1)
If , then - (2)
If , then
Proof. For
, we let
After a simple calculation, we can get
Substituting
, we obtain
Letting
and
, we get
It is easy to find that
is decreasing with respect to
. Therefore,
that is,
Integrating the two sides of the inequality for
t above from 0 to 1, we get
and
By combining inequalities (40)–(42), we can obtain (30) from Lemma 5.
On the other hand, for
, we have
From (41)–(43), we can obtain (31) from Lemma 5.
If
, then
. According to the results in (30), we can easily get (33), that is,
By integrating the two sides of the inequality from 0 to r, we can get (32). □
Lemma 6. If , then .
Proof. For convenience, we set and .
Let
. According to Definition 1 and the relationship of subordination, we have
that is,
where
is analytic in
and satisfies
and
.
Let
, and we have
. Thus, we get
that is,
Since
we have
which is equivalent to
where
.
Since
, by combining this with the conclusion above, we get
that is,
.
Thus, we complete the proof of Lemma 6. □
Lemma 7. If , then .
Proof. Similarly to the proof of Lemma 6, let and .
If
, according to Definition 1 and the relationship of subordination, we have
where
. Thus, we get
Since
we have
where
.
Since
, by combining this with the above conclusion, we get
that is,
.
Thus, we complete the proof of Lemma 7. □
Lemma 8. Let and .
- (1)
If , then - (2)
If , then where , and are given by (34), (35), (36), and (37) respectively.
Proof. (1) Suppose that
; then, we get
According to Lemma 5 and Lemma 6, we have
Equation (
44) can be obtained by combining Equations (46) and (47).
- (2)
Suppose that
; then, we get
According to Lemma 5 and Lemma 7, we have
With (48) and (49), we can obtain
By integrating the two sides of inequality (50) about r, we can get (45) after a simple calculation. □
3. Main Results
First, we get the integral expression for functions of these classes as follows.
Theorem 1. If , then we have and ω and ϖ are analytic in and satisfy .
Proof. Suppose that
. According to Definition 1 and the relationship of the analytic part and the co-analytic part of the harmonic function, we have
where
satisfies
and
.
From (53) and (54), we obtain
Therefore, we get the result of (51). □
Similarly to the proof of Theorem 1, we can get the integral expression of the function in the class as follows.
Theorem 2. Let ; then, we havewhere is given in (52), and ω and ϖ are analytic in and satisfy . Next, we will get the coefficient estimates for the function classes and .
Theorem 3. Let , where σ and τ are given by (4).
- (1)
If , then The above estimates are sharp, and the extremal function is
.
- (2)
If , then where is given by (18).
The estimates are sharp, and the extremal function is
.
Proof. According to Definition 1 and the relationship of the analytic part and the co-analytic part of the harmonic function, there exists an analytic function
of the form
in
that satisfies
such that
where
and
are given by (4).
By comparing the coefficients on both sides of the above equation, we get
and
It is easy to show that
and
Since
, with Lemma 1, it is easy to find that
. Therefore,
and
According to Lemma 3, (63), and (64), with a simple calculation, we can get (57)–(60). Thus, the proof is complete. □
In particular, by letting , we can obtain the following result.
Corollary 1. Let be of the Form (4).
- (1)
If , then The above estimates are sharp, and the extremal function is as follows: - (2)
The above estimates are sharp, and the extremal function is as follows:
By applying Theorem 3, we arrive at the following conclusion.
Theorem 4. Let be of the Form (4), .
- (1)
If , then - (2)
If , then where is given by (18).
Proof. Let
be of the Form (4). By using the relation
, (59), and (60), we have
and
According to Lemma 1, we have
and
According to (14), (15), (25), and (26) of Lemma 4, we can complete the proof of part (1) of Theorem 4.
Similarly to the previous proof, let be of the Form (4). According to (16), (17), (25), and (26) from Lemma 4, we can complete the proof of part (2) of Theorem 4. □
In particular, if we set and , we get the following result.
Corollary 2. Let be of the Form (4) for .
(1) If , thenand (2) If , thenandwhere . Theorem 5. Let .
- (1)
If , then In particular, let ; then, we have - (2)
If , then In particular, let ; then, we have where are given by (34), (35), (36), and (37), respectively.
Proof. According to the relation
, it is not hard to see that there is
such that (see [
25]):
namely,
From (82), it is easy to find that
By combining (83) and (44), we get (77). Similarly, combining (83) and (45) gives (80). So, the proof is complete. □
By using the same method as that used in the proof of Lemma 5, the following results are easily obtained.
Theorem 6. Let .
- (1)
If , then In particular, let for ; then, we get - (2)
If , then In particular, let for ; then, we get where are given by (34), (35), (36), and (37), respectively.
Below, we show how we can obtain the Jacobian estimate and growth estimate of f.
Theorem 7. Let .
- (1)
If , then - (2)
If , then where are given by (34), (35), (36), and (37), respectively.
Proof. The Jacobian of
is of the following form:
Because
, we have
Let
; by applying (44) and (83) to (90), we obtain
and
Therefore, the proof of (1) is complete. By applying (45) and (83) to (90), (2) of Theorem 7 can be proved in the same way as before. □
Theorem 8. Let .
- (1)
If , then - (2)
If , then
Proof. Suppose that is any point in and let and then, .
So, there is
such that
. Let
; then,
is a well-defined Jordan arc. By applying (44) and (83) for
, we have
The right side of Equation (
91) can be obtained after a simple calculation by using Equations (44) and (83). The rest is similar to that in (91) and is omitted.
By combining (91) and (92), we get the covering theorem of f. □
Theorem 9. Let .
- (1)
If , then , where - (2)
If , then , where
In particular, if , then we obtain the following results.
Corollary 3. Let .
- (1)
If , then , where
- (2)
If , then , where