Abstract

This article comprises the study of differential subordination with analogue of -derivative. It includes the sufficient condition on for to be subordinated by , , and implies that , where is the analytic function in the open unit disk. Moreover, certain sufficient conditions for -starlikeness of analytic functions related with lemniscate of Bernoulli are determined.

1. Introduction

Let a set be considered as the class of analytic functions defined in open unit disk under normalization conditions and , havingas Taylor series. The class comprises the normalized univalent functions, defined in . The major subcategories of class are of convex functions and of starlike functions. The class is another important class of analytic univalent functions whose co-domains are restricted to the right half plane and are used to determine the convexity and starlikeness of univalent functions. For more details, see [1, 2].

Let and be two analytic functions in . Then, is subordinated by , denoted as if can be written in the form of composition of and as subject to the existence of analytic function which satisfies the condition that and . Furthermore, if both and are univalent functions in , then implies that and .

Subordination plays an important role in univalent function theory, and this concept was first introduced by Lindelöf, but Littlewood [3, 4] contributed remarkably to this field. Differential subordination is actually the generalized version of differential inequalities with real variables. Many researchers contributed in the work related to differential subordinations. Historical developments in the field of differential subordination are briefly described by Miller and Mocanu in [5].

The advancement in the field of differential subordination starts with the usage of univalent functions. It was noticed in an article by Miller et al. [6] in 1974. Furthermore, many developments in this field have been achieved with the usage of differential subordinations in past fifty years. Differential inequality was a very well-known concept of real variables, and to study it in terms of complex variables, Miller and Mocanu [7] in 1981 were the first ones to introduce the idea of differential subordination. The contribution of Ruscheweyh and Singh [8] and Ruscheweyh and Wilken [9] is also of great importance in this field. Well-known Jack’s lemma [10] has brought the advancements in differential subordinations. Dziok [11] worked on some of the applications of Jack’s lemma. The research work carried out by Ma and Minda [12] in the function theory is worth to mention here, as they introduced the analytic function , which satisfies the conditions of normalization and having real part positive. The authors in [12] utilized the function and introduced the subclass of starlike functions as follows:

The idea presented in [12] is very useful, and it helped many researchers for further studies in this direction. Ali et al. [13, 14] worked on differential subordination for sufficiency criteria of Janowski starlikeness and evaluated several differential subordinations such as and found . Also, Ravichandran et al. [15] used this concept to find the sufficient conditions for starlikeness of Bernoulli’s lemniscate and Janowski functions. Sharma et al. [16] studied the differential subordinations to prove the starlikeness associated with cardioid domain and Halim et al. [17] introduced the concept for limacon domain.

Jackson [18, 19] was the one who introduced the -derivatives and -integrals. After Jackson, Srivastava was amongst the pioneers to contribute in the -calculus for its usage for analytic functions and their subclasses. Not only this, but he also applied -hypergeometric function in the functions theory. All these contributions are comprised in his book (pp. 347 in [20]). Ismail et al. [21] contributed in the -calculus for the study of starlike functions. Anastassiu and Gal [22, 23] also played their part in the development of complex variables with -generalization. Purohit et al. [24] have used fractional -calculus operators to apply subordination conditions on the class of non-Bazilevic functions. Sahoo and Agrawal [25] worked on starlike functions in -calculus and extended the idea of -starlikeness for particular subclasses of starlike functions. The involvement of -derivative in the class gave the formation of following subclass of starlike functions which was introduced by Aouf and Seoudy [26].

The class described above has drawn the attention of many researchers. Replacing with different functions such as Janowski, lemniscate of Bernoulli, cardioid, and limacon, the researchers got the new directions to the study. Srivastava et al. [27] studied -derivatives to find the relation between different classes of -starlike functions related to Janowski function. Srivastava et al. [28] introduced the class of -starlike functions by using general conic domains. They also obtained the bounds on Hankel and Toeplitz determinants for -starlike functions and continued working par excellence. They produced unmatchable results that worked as great motivation for many researchers worldwide. To have an idea of their remarkable work, one can see [2931], [20, 27, 28, 3243]. Contributions of Haq et al. [44] and Zainab et al. [45] are also worth to mention. They studied -analogue of differential subordinations for star-like functions related to limacon and cardioid domains, and Janowski functions. The -derivative is the foundation of all this work in -analogue, and it is defined as follows.

The -derivative of a complex valued function , defined in the domain , is given as follows:where . This implies the following:on the assumption that the function is differentiable in . The -derivative of an analytic function has Taylor series of the formwhere

For more details about -derivative and recent work on it, we refer the readers to [2931], [20, 27, 28, 3243]. In addition, the -analogue of Jack’s lemma has played a vital role in this paper which states as follows.

Lemma 1 (see [46]). Let be an analytic function in with . For maximum of on at , where and , then we havewhere with .

2. Main Results

Theorem 1. Assume that

Consider an analytic function on with which satisfies

Also, suppose

Here, is an analytic function in such that . Then, we have

Proof. Suppose thatwhere is analytic, and we have . Also, consider thatNow, we prove that , whereUsing (13) and (14), we obtainAlso, we haveConsider a point such thatNow, by using Lemma 1, we have . Now, consider that ; then, for , we obtainConsider a new functionThen,Above expression represents that the function has increasing behavior, so we have its minimum value at andSo, we conclude thatNow, from (9), we haveSince this result contradicts (10), therefore, , which completes the proof.
By taking we deduce the following result.

Corollary 1. Let and , satisfy the subordination

Then, .

Theorem 2. Assume that

Consider an analytic function on with which satisfies

Also, supposewhere is analytic function on with . Then,

Proof. We define a functionwhere is analytic and . Now, consider thatTo obtain the result, we have to show that . Using (30) and (31), we obtain the resultAlso, we haveConsider a point such thatNow, by using Lemma 1, we have . Now, consider that ; then, for , we obtainConsiderThen,Above expression represents that function has increasing behavior, so we have its minimum value at andSo, we conclude thatNow, from (26), we havewhich contradicts (27), and hence, , which completes the proof.
By taking we deduce the following result.

Corollary 2. Let and , which satisfies the subordination

Then, .

Theorem 3. Assume that

Consider an analytic function on with which satisfies

Also, supposewhere is analytic function on with . Then,

Proof. We define a functionwhere is analytic, and we have . Now, consider thatTo obtain the result, we have to show that . Using (46) and (47), we obtain the resultAlso, we haveConsider a point such thatNow, by using Lemma 1, we have . Now, consider that ; then, for , we obtainConsider a functionThen,Here, is clearly an increasing function, so we have its minimum value at andSo, we conclude thatNow, from (42), we havewhich contradict (43), and hence, , which completes the proof.
By taking we deduce the following result.

Corollary 3. Let and , satisfies the subordination

Then, .

Theorem 4. Assume that

Consider an analytic function on with which satisfies

Also, supposewhere is analytic function on with . Then,

Proof. We define a functionwhere is analytic, and we have . Now, consider thatTo obtain the result, we have to show that . Using (62) and (63), we obtainAlso, we haveConsider a point such thatNow, by using Lemma 1, we have . Now, consider that ; then, for , we obtainConsider a functionThen,Above expression represents that function has increasing behavior, so we have its minimum value at andSo, we conclude thatNow, from (58), we havewhich contradicts (59), and hence, , which completes the proof.
By taking we deduce the following result.

Corollary 5. Let and , satisfy the subordination

Then, .

Theorem 6. Assume that

Consider an analytic function on with which satisfies

Also, supposewhere is analytic function on with . Then,

Proof. We define a functionwhere is analytic, and we have . Now, consider thatTo obtain the result, we have to show that . Using (78) and (79), we obtainAlso, we haveConsider a point such thatNow, by using Lemma 1, we have . Now, consider that ; then, for , we obtainConsiderThen,Above expression represents that function has increasing behavior, so we have its minimum value at andSo, we conclude thatNow, from (74), we havewhich contradict (75), and hence, , which completes the proof.
By taking we deduce the following result.

Corollary 7. Let and , satisfy the subordination

Then, .

3. Conclusion

In this article, we have investigated the -differential subordination by using -version of well-known Jack’s Lemma. We have found the condition on such that implies that . These results have been utilized to find sufficient conditions for star-like functions related to lemniscate of Bernoulli. This method can further be applied to find sufficient conditions for star-like functions of Ma–Minda type.

Data Availability

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Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Authors’ Contributions

All authors contributed equally and approved the final manuscript.