Meromorphic functions with small Schwarzian derivative

Publication date 4 September 2019

Abstract: We consider the family of all meromorphic functions

f

of the form

f(z)=frac{1}{z}+b_0+b_1z+b_2z^2+cdots

analytic and locally univalent in the puncture disk

m a t h b b D_{0} := z i n m a t h b b C :, 0 < | z | < 1

. Our first objective in this paper is to find a sufficient condition for

f

to be meromorphically convex of order

a l p h a

,

0 l e a l p h a < 1

, in terms of the fact that the absolute value of the well-known Schwarzian derivative

S_{f} (z)

of

f

is bounded above by a smallest positive root of a non-linear equation. Secondly, we consider a family of functions

g

of the form

g (z) = z + a_{2} z^{2} + a_{3} z^{3} + c d o t s

analytic and locally univalent in the open unit disk

m a t h b b D := z i n m a t h b b C :, | z | < 1

, and show that

g

is belonging to a family of functions convex in one direction if

| S_{g} (z) |

is bounded above by a small positive constant depending on the second coefficient

a_{2}

. In particular, we show that such functions

g

are also contained in the starlike and close-to-convex family.

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