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On extreme points and support points of the family of starlike functions of order α

A. A. S. Perera and Donald Rayl Wilken

Vol. 123 (1986), No. 1, 197–207
Abstract

Let St(α) denote the subclass of functions f(z) analytic in the open unit disk D which satisfy the conditions f(0) = 0, f′(0) = 1 and Re(zf′(z)∕f(z))>α for z in D. In this note we investigate the compact, convex family coS(St(α)) which is the closed convex hull of the set of all functions analytic in D that are subordinate to some function in St(α), α < 1∕2. The principal result establishes that every support point of coS(St(α)) arising from a “nontrivial” functional must also be an extreme point, hence a function of the form f(z) = xz∕(1 − yz)2(1−α), |x| = |y| = 1.

To amplify on this synopsis, let 𝒜 denote the set of functions analytic in the open unit disk D = {z ∈ C∣|z| < 1}. Then 𝒜 is a locally convex linear topological space under the topology of uniform convergence on compact subsets of D. A function f in 𝒜 is said to be subordinate to a function F in 𝒜 (written f ≺ F), if there is a function φ in B0 such that f(z) = F(φ(z)), where B0 = {φ ∈𝒜|φ(0) = 0,|φ(z)| < 1 in D}.

Let ℱ be a compact subset of 𝒜. A function f in ℱ is a support point of ℱ if there is a continuous linear functional J on 𝒜 such that

ReJ(f) = max{Re J(g)|g ∈ ℱ }

and ReJ is non-constant on ℱ. We use Σℱ to denote the set of support points of ℱ and coℱ and ℰcoℱ to denote, respectively, the closed convex hull of ℱ and the set of extreme points of the closed convex hull of ℱ.

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 30C45
Milestones
Received: 10 December 1984
Published: 1 May 1986
Authors
A. A. S. Perera
Donald Rayl Wilken