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Journal of Inequalities and Applications
Volume 2007, Article ID 48294, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/48294
Research Article
On Subordination Result Associated with Certain Subclass of
Analytic Functions Involving Salagean Operator
Sevtap S
¨
umer Eker, Bilal S¸eker, and Shigeyoshi Owa
Received 3 February 2007; Accepted 15 May 2007
Recommended by Narendra K. Govil
We obtain an interesting subordination relation for Salagean-type certain analytic func-
tions by using subordination theorem.
Copyright © 2007 Sevtap S
¨
umer Eker et al. This is an open access article distributed un-
der the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distri-
bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
1. Introduction
Let Ꮽ denote the class of functions f (z) normalized by
f (z)
= z +
∞

j=2
a
j
z
j
, (1.1)


(z)
f

(z)

>α, z ∈ U

.
(1.2)
Note that f (z)
∈ ᏷(α) ⇔ zf

(z) ∈ ᏿
∗
(α).
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S
˘
al
˘
agean [1] has introduced the following operator:
D
0
f (z) = f (z),
D
1
f (z) = Df(z) = zf

(z),

0
=
N ∪{
0}

. (1.4)
We denote by S
n
(α) subclass of the class Ꮽ which is defined as follows:
S
n
(α) =

f : f ∈ Ꮽ,Re

D
n+1
f (z)
D
n
f (z)

>αz∈ U;0<α≤ 1

. (1.5)
The class S
n
(α) was introduced by Kadio
ˇ
glu [2]. We begin by recalling following coef-


S
n
(α) ⊂ S
n
(α), (1.7)
which consists of functions f (z)
∈ Ꮽ whose Taylor-Maclaurin coefficients satisfy the in-
equality (1.6).
In this paper, we prove an interesting subordination result for the class

S
n
(α). In our
proposed investigation of functions in the class

S
n
(α), we need the following definitions
and results.
Definit ion 1.2 (Hadamard product or convolution). Given two functions f ,g
∈ Ꮽ where
f (z)isgivenby(1.1)andg(z)isdefinedby
g(z)
= z +
∞

j=2
b
j


w(z)


< 1, (1.11)
such that
f (z)
= g

w(z)

, z ∈ U. (1.12)
In particular, if the function g is univalent in
U, the above subordination is equivalent to
f (0)
= g(0), f (U) ⊂ g(U). (1.13)
Definit ion 1.4 (subordinating factor sequence). A sequence
{b
j
}
∞
j=1
of complex numbers
is said to be a subordinating factor sequence if whenever f (z)oftheform(1.1)isanalytic,
univalent, and convex in
U, the subordination is given by
∞

j=1
a


S
n
(α). Also, let ᏷ denote
familiar class of functions f (z)
∈ Ꮽ which are univalent and convex in U. Then
2
n
− α2
n−1
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n

( f ∗ g)(z) ≺ g(z)

z ∈ U; n ∈ N
0
; g(z) ∈ ᏷

, (2.1)
Re f (z) >
−
(1 − α)+

2
n+1

(α) and suppose that
g(z)
= z +
∞

j=2
c
j
z
j
∈ ᏷. (2.4)
Then
2
n
− α2
n−1
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n

( f ∗ g)(z) =
2
n
− α2
n−1
(1 − α)+



a
j

∞
j=1
(2.6)
is a subordinating factor sequences, with a
1
= 1. In view of Theorem 1.5, this is equivalent
to the following inequality:
Re

1+2
∞

j=1
2
n
− α2
n−1
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n

a
j

z
j

=
Re

1+
∞

j=1
2
n+1
− α2
n
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n

a
j
z
j

=
Re

1+


a
j
z
j

≥
1 −
2
n+1
− α2
n
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n

r −
1
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n

∞



2
n+1
− α2
n

r>0

|
z|=r<1

,
(2.8)
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¨
umer Eker et al. 5
wherewehavealsomadeuseoftheassertion(1.6)ofTheorem 1.1. This evidently proves
the inequality (2.7), and hence also the subordination result (2.1) asserted by our theo-
rem. The inequality (2.2)followsfrom(2.1)uponsetting
g(z)
=
z
1 − z
=
∞

j=1
z
j
∈ ᏷. (2.9)

− α2
n


f
0
∗ g

(z) ≺
z
1 − z
. (2.11)
It can be easily verified for the function f
0
(z)definedby(2.10)that
minRe

2
n
− α2
n−1
(1 − α)+

2
n+1
− α2
n


f

− α
2(3 − 2α)
(2.15)
in the subordination result (2.13) cannot be replaced by a large r one.
If we take n
= 1inTheorem 2.1, we have the following corollary.
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Corollary 2.3. Let the function f (z) defined by (1.1) be in the class ᏷(α) and g(z)
∈ ᏷,
then
2
− α
5 − 3α
( f
∗ g)(z) ≺ g(z), (2.16)
Re f (z) >
−
5 − 3α
2(2 − α)
(z
∈ U). (2.17)
The constant factor
2
− α
5 − 3α
(2.18)
in the subordination result (2.16) cannot be replaced by a large r one.
References
[1]G.S.S
˘