Geometric properties for convolutions of hypergeometric functions and functions with the derivative in a halfplane (Q4935279)

For \(\beta<1\), the authors denote by \(R(\beta)\) the class of normalized functions \(f\) which are regular in the unit disk \(\Delta\) and satisfy the condition \(\text{Re} [e^{i\alpha} (f'(z)- \beta)]>0\) for \(z\in\Delta\). This paper deals with the following problem: for any given \(a>0\), \(b>0\), determine conditions on \(c\) and \(\beta\) such that the convolution \(zF(a,b;c;z)*f(z)\) is starlike if \(f\in R(\beta)\). The same question for the function \(z\Phi(a;c;z)* f(z)\) is also treated. In this paper \(F(a,b;c;z)\) and \(\Phi(a;c;z)\) are the Gaussian and confluent hypergeometric functions, respectively.