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Given two harmonic functions \(f_{1}=h_{1}+{\bar{g}}_{1}\) and \(f_{2}=h_{2}+{\bar{g}}_{2}\) defined on the open unit disk of the complex plane, the geometric properties of the product \(f_{1}\otimes f_{2}\) defined by
are discussed. Here \(*\) denotes the analytic convolution. Sufficient conditions are obtained for the product to be univalent and convex in the direction of the real axis. In addition, a convolution theorem, coefficient inequalities and closure properties for the product \(\otimes \) are proved.
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The first author is supported by a Junior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR), New Delhi with File No. 09/045 (1515)2017-EMR-I. The authors are thankful to the referee for his/her useful comments.
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Raj, A., Nagpal, S. & Ravichandran, V. On the Product of Planar Harmonic Mappings. Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 21, 427–452 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40315-021-00367-8
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Keywords
- Univalent harmonic mappings
- Sense-preserving
- Convex in one direction
- Convolution
- Starlike
- Convex
- Close-to-convex