On harmonic functions defined by derivative operator (Q938417)

The authors consider functions \(f=h+\overline{g}\) that are harmonic univalent and sens--preserving in the unit disk \(U\), where \(h(z) = z+ \sum_{k=2}^{\infty} a_kz^k\), \(g(z) = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} b_kz^k\) (\(| b_1| <1\)). The authors introduce the class of such functions for which \(\text{Re}\{D_{\lambda}^{n+1} f(z) / D_{\lambda}^{n} f(z)\} >\alpha\) (\(0 \leq \alpha <1\)), where the derivative operators are introduced as \(D_{\lambda}^{n} g(z) = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}k^n C^{\lambda}_{k+\lambda-1} b_kz^k\). Coefficient conditions, such as distortion bounds, convolution conditions, convex combination, extreme points are obtained for this class of functions.