A certain class of \(p\)-valently analytic functions (Q2486807)

Let \(A_{p}(n)\) denote the class of functions \(f\) of the following form: \[ \displaystyle{f(z)=z^{p}+\sum^{\infty}_{k=n}a_{p+k}z^{p+k}}\, \, (p,n\in\mathbf{N}:=\{ 1,2,3,\dots \} )\, , \] which are analytic and \(p\)-valent in the open unit disk. The authors introduced some interesting subclasses of \(A_{p}(n)\) as follows. Definition 1. A function \(f\in A_{p}(n)\) is said to be in the class \(R_{p,j}(n,A,B)\) if it satisfies the following subordination condition: \[ \displaystyle{ \frac{(p-j)!}{p!}\frac{f^{(j)}(z)}{z^{p-j}}\prec \frac{1+Az}{1+Bz}}\, \, (z\in U\, ;\, 0\leq j\leq p)\, , \] where \(A\) and \(B\) are arbitrarily fixed real numbers constrained by \(-1\leq B<A\leq 1\, .\) Definition 2. A function \(f\in A_{p}\) is said to be in the class \(H^{\lambda}_{p,j}(A,B)\) if it satisfies the following subordination condition: \[ \displaystyle{ (1-\lambda )\frac{zf^{(j)}(z)}{f^{(j-1)}(z)}+\lambda \left( 1+ \frac{zf^{(j+1)}(z)}{f^{(j)}(z)}\right) \prec (p-j+1)\frac{1+Az}{1+Bz}}\, \, (z\in U\, ;\, 1\leq j\leq p)\, , \] for some real number \(\lambda\) and for some arbitrarily fixed numbers \(A\) and \(B\) constrained by \(-1\leq B<A\leq 1\, .\) In the present paper, the authors derive various properties and characteristics of functions belonging to the classes \(R_{p,j}(n,A,B)\) and \(H^{\lambda}_{p,j}(A,B)\) by using the techniques involving the Briot-Bouquet differential subordination introduced by S.S. Miller and P.T. Mocanu in 1985. The results presented here not only improve and sharpen the earlier works, but they also give rise to a number of new results for simpler function classes.