For a constant k ∈ [0,∞) a normalized function f , analytic in the unit disk, is said to be k-uniformly convex if Re (1 + zf ′′(z)/f ′(z)) > k|zf ′′(z)/f ′(z)| at any point in the unit disk. The class of k-uniformly convex functions is denoted k-UCV (cf. [4]). The function g is said to be k-starlike if g(z) = zf ′(z) and f ∈ k-UCV. For analytic functions f, g, where f(z) = z + a2z + · · · and g...

In this paper we consider the classes of starlike functions, starlike functions of order α, convex functions, convex functions of order α and the classes of the univalent functions denoted by SH (β), SP and SP (α, β). On these classes we study the convexity and αorder convexity for a general integral operator.

The sharp bounds for the third and fourth coefficients of Ma-Minda starlike functions having fixed second coefficient are determined. These results are proved by using certain constraint coefficient problem for functions with positive real part whose coefficients are real and the first coefficient is kept fixed. Analogous results are obtained for a general class of close-to-convex functions

In this paper, we investigate several inclusion relationships of certain subclasses of meromorphically p-valent functions which are defined here by means of a linear operator involving the generalized hypergeometric function . We introduce and investigate several new subclasses of p-valent starlike, p-valent convex, p-valent close-to-convex and p-valent quasiconvex meromorphic functions.

In this paper, we introduce new general integral operators. New sufficient conditions for these operators to be p-valently starlike, p-valently close-to-convex, uniformly p-valent close-to-convex and strongly starlike of order γ (0 < γ ≤ 1) in the open unit disk are obtained.

In the present paper certain subclasses of strongly starlike and strongly convex functions defined by convolution with the generalized Hurwitz -Lerch Zeta function are investigated. Some inclusion relations are also mentioned as special cases of our main results.

Making use of the generalized hypergeometric functions, we introduce some generalized class of k−uniformly convex and starlike functions and for this class, we settle the Silverman’s conjecture for the integral means inequality. In particular, we obtain integral means inequalities for various classes of uniformly convex and uniformly starlike functions in the unit disc.

This is an introductory survey on applications of the Julia variation to problems in geometric function theory. A short exposition is given which develops a method for treating extremal problems over classes F of analytic functions on the unit disk D for which appropriate subsets Fn can be constructed so that (i) F = ⋃ n Fn and (ii) for each f ∈ Fn a geometric constraint will hold that ∂f(D) wi...