Differential Subordinations for Nonanalytic Functions

Abstract

In the paper by Mocanu (1980), Mocanu has obtained sufficient conditions for a function in the classesC1(U), respectively, andC2(U)to be univalent and to mapUonto a domain which is starlike (with respect to origin), respectively, and convex. Those conditions are similar to those in the analytic case. In the paper by Mocanu (1981), Mocanu has obtained sufficient conditions of univalency for complex functions in the classC1which are also similar to those in the analytic case. Having those papers as inspiration, we try to introduce the notion of subordination for nonanalytic functions of classesC1andC2following the classical theory of differential subordination for analytic functions introduced by Miller and Mocanu in their papers (1978 and 1981) and developed in their book (2000). LetΩbe any set in the complex planeC, letpbe a nonanalytic function in the unit discU,p∈C2(U),and letψ(r,s,t;z):C3×U→C. In this paper, we consider the problem of determining properties of the functionp, nonanalytic in the unit discU, such thatpsatisfies the differential subordinationψ(p(z),Dp(z),D2p(z)-Dp(z);z)⊂Ω⇒p(U)⊂Δ.