A note on univalent functions starlike with respect to a boundary point (Q1399879)

Let \(D\) be the open unit disc of the complex plane. For \(\alpha> 0\), let \(B(\alpha)\) denote the class of all analytic functions \(w:D\to D\) such that \((1-w(z))/(1-z)\) has angular limit \(\alpha\) at \(1\). It is known that if \(f\) has angular limit 0 at 1 and \(f\) is starlike with respect to the boundary point origin (i.e., if \(f(D)\) is starlike with respect to \(0\in\partial (f(D)))\) then there exists \(w\in B(\alpha)\) (for some \(0<\alpha <1)\) such that \[ (1-z)^2{f'(z) \over f(z)}= -4{1-w(z)\over 1+w(z)} (z\in D)\tag{1} \] The authors obtain a converse of this theorem with a weaker condition of \(f\) (namely that if \(f\) has an asymptotic value 0 at \(z=1\) and has a representation (1) for some \(w\in B(\alpha)\) then \(f\) is starlike with respect to the boundary point origin.) The proof is geometric in nature and is interesting.