There are many articles in the literature dealing with the first-order and the second-order differential subordination and superordination problems for analytic functions in the unit disk, but only a few articles are dealing with the above problems in the third-order case (see, e.g., Antonino and Miller (2011) and Ponnusamy et al. (1992)). The concept of the third-order differential subordination in the unit disk was introduced by Antonino and Miller in (2011). Let Ω be a set in the complex planeC. Also letpbe analytic in the unit diskU=z:z∈C and z<1and suppose thatψ:C4×U→C. In this paper, we investigate the problem of determining properties of functionsp(z)that satisfy the following third-order differential superordination:Ω⊂ψpz,zp′z,z2p′′z,z3p′′′z;z:z∈U. As applications, we derive some third-order differential subordination and superordination results for meromorphically multivalent functions, which are defined by a family of convolution operators involving the Liu-Srivastava operator. The results are obtained by considering suitable classes of admissible functions.
Third-order differential subordination and superordination involving a fractional operator
