Planar harmonic mappings in a family of functions convex in one direction

Let D := {z ? C : |z| < 1} be the open unit disk, and h and 1 be two analytic functions in D. Suppose that f = h + ?g is a harmonic mapping in D with the usual normalization h(0) = 0 = g(0) and h'(0) = 1. In this paper, we consider harmonic mappings f by restricting its analytic part to a family of functions convex in one direction and, in particular, starlike. Some sharp and optimal estimates for coefficient bounds, growth, covering and area bounds are investigated for the class of functions under consideration. Also, we obtain optimal radii of fully convexity, fully starlikeness, uniformly convexity, and uniformly starlikeness of functions belonging to those family.

Linear combinations of a class of harmonic univalent mappings

A planar harmonic mapping is a complex-valued function f : U ? C of the form f (x + iy) = u(x,y) + iv(x,y), where u and v are both real harmonic. Such a function can be written as f = h + g?, where h and g are both analytic; the function ? = g'=h' is called the dilatation of f. We consider the linear combinations of planar harmonic mappings that are the vertical shears of the asymmetrical vertical strip mappings j(z) = 1/2isin?j log (1+zei?j/ 1+ze-i?j) with various dilatations, where ?j ? [?/2,?), j=1,2. We prove sufficient conditions for the linear combination of this class of harmonic univalent mappings to be univalent and convex in the direction of the imaginary axis.

A GENERALISATION OF THE CLUNIE–SHEIL-SMALL THEOREM II

We study properties of the simply connected sets in the complex plane, which are finite unions of domains convex in the horizontal direction. These considerations allow us to state new univalence criteria for complex-valued local homeomorphisms. In particular, we apply our results to planar harmonic mappings obtaining generalisations of the shear construction theorem due to Clunie and Sheil-Small [‘Harmonic univalent functions’, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Ser. A. I. Math.9 (1984), 3–25].

Distortion and covering theorems of pluriharmonic mappings

The linear-invariant families of analytic functions make it possible to obtain well-known results to broader classes of functions, and are often helpful in obtaining simpler proofs along with new results. Based on this classical approach due to Pommerenke, properties (such as bounds for the derivative, covering and distortion) of a corresponding class of locally quasiconformal and planar harmonic mappings are established by Starkov. Motivated by these works, in this paper, we mainly investigate distortion and covering theorems on some classes of pluriharmonic mappings.