On certain analytic functions associated with Ruscheweyh derivatives and bounded Mocanu variation (Q2470507)

The authors study the class \(\mathcal A\) of functions \(f\) having the form \(f (z) = z + \sum^{\infty}_{m=2} a_m z^m\) that are analytic in the unit disk \(E = \{z : |z| < 1\}\) and the subclasses of functions in \(\mathcal A\) that are univalent, close-to-convex, starlike, convex, of bounded radius rotation, of bounded Mocano variation, or Paatero bounded radius rotation. The authors give a unified approach to the study via a huge new parametrized family of classes denoted by \(R_k (\alpha, a, \gamma)\), where \(k \geq 2,\alpha \geq 2, a > 0\), and \(0\leq \gamma < 1\). The definition of \(R_k (\alpha, a,\gamma )\) is complicated, but, for example: \(R_k (0, 1, 0)\) is the class of bounded radius rotation; \(R_2 (\alpha, 1, 0)\) is the class of alpha-starlike functions; \(R_k (1, 1, 0)\) is the class of Paatero bounded boundary rotation; \(R_k (\alpha, 1, 0)\) is the class of bounded Mocano variation; \(R_2 (1, 1, 0)\) is the class of convex functions; and \(R_2 (0, 1, 0)\) is the class of starlike functions. The authors' main results are inclusion relationships among the classes \(R_k (\alpha, a,\gamma )\) and a crieterion for the univalence of the Ruscheweyh derivatives of functions in some of these classes.