Derek Keith Thomas

Dr. Derek Keith Thomas

Department of Mathematics, Swansea University, Swansea SA1 8EN, UK

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31Years (1996-Present)

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26 February 2018 in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
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FAFiroz Ali
Firoz Ali
DTDerek Keith Thomas
Derek Keith Thomas
AVAllu Vasudevarao
Allu Vasudevarao
Let ${\mathcal{S}}$ denote the class of analytic and univalent functions in $\mathbb{D}:=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ which are of the form $f(z)=z+\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n}$ . We determine sharp estimates for the Toeplitz determinants whose elements are the Taylor coefficients of functions in ${\mathcal{S}}$ and certain of its subclasses. We also discuss similar problems for typically real functions.

2 March 2021 in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata (1923 -)
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YSYoung Jae Sim
Young Jae Sim
ALAdam Lecko
Adam Lecko
DTDerek Keith Thomas
Derek Keith Thomas
Let f be analytic in the unit disk $${\mathbb {D}}=\{z\in {\mathbb {C}}:|z|<1 \}$$ D = { z ∈ C : | z | < 1 } , and $${{\mathcal {S}}}$$ S be the subclass of normalized univalent functions given by $$f(z)=z+\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }a_n z^n$$ f ( z ) = z + ∑ n = 2 ∞ a n z n for $$z\in {\mathbb {D}}$$ z ∈ D . We give sharp bounds for the modulus of the second Hankel determinant $$ H_2(2)(f)=a_2a_4-a_3^2$$ H 2 ( 2 ) ( f ) = a 2 a 4 - a 3 2 for the subclass $$ {\mathcal F_{O}}(\lambda ,\beta )$$ F O ( λ , β ) of strongly Ozaki close-to-convex functions, where $$1/2\le \lambda \le 1$$ 1 / 2 ≤ λ ≤ 1 , and $$0<\beta \le 1$$ 0 < β ≤ 1 . Sharp bounds are also given for $$|H_2(2)(f^{-1})|$$ | H 2 ( 2 ) ( f - 1 ) | , where $$f^{-1}$$ f - 1 is the inverse function of f. The results settle an invariance property of $$|H_2(2)(f)|$$ | H 2 ( 2 ) ( f ) | and $$|H_2(2)(f^{-1})|$$ | H 2 ( 2 ) ( f - 1 ) | for strongly convex functions.

12 January 2022 in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics
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AVAllu Vasudevarao
Allu Vasudevarao
ALAdam Lecko
Adam Lecko
DTDerek Keith Thomas
Derek Keith Thomas
Let f be analytic in $$\mathbb {D}=\{z\in \mathbb {C}:|z|<1\}$$ D = { z ∈ C : | z | < 1 } , and be given by $$f(z)=z+\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n}$$ f ( z ) = z + ∑ n = 2 ∞ a n z n . We give sharp bounds for the second Hankel determinant, some Toeplitz, and some Hermitian-Toeplitz determinants of functions in the class of Ozaki close-to-convex functions, together with a sharp bound for the Zalcman functional $$J_{2,3}(f).$$ J 2 , 3 ( f ) .

4 June 2021 in Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations
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YSYoung Jae Sim
Young Jae Sim
DTDerek Keith Thomas
Derek Keith Thomas
PZPaweł Zaprawa
Paweł Zaprawa
In recent years, the study of Hankel determinants for various subclasses of normalised univalent functions f∈S given by f(z)=z+∑n=2∞anzn for D={z∈C:|z|<1} has produced many interesting results. The main focus of interest has been estimating the second Hankel determinant of the form H2,2(f)=a2a4−a32. A non-sharp bound for H2,2(f) when f∈K(α), α∈[0,1) consisting of convex functions of order α was found by Krishna and Ramreddy (Hankel determinant for starlike and convex functions of order alpha. Tbil Math J. 2012;5:65–76), and later improved by Thomas et al. (Univalent functions: a primer. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2018). In this paper, we give the sharp result. Moreover, we obtain sharp results for H2,2(f−1) for the inverse functions f−1 when f∈K(α), and when f∈S∗(α), the class of starlike functions of order α. Thus, the results in this paper complete the set of problems for the second Hankel determinants of f and f−1 for the classes S∗(α), K(α), Sβ∗ and Kβ, where Sβ∗ and Kβ are, respectively, the classes of strongly starlike, and strongly convex functions of order β.

9 December 2020 in Symmetry
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YSYoung Jae Sim
Young Jae Sim
DTDerek Keith Thomas
Derek Keith Thomas
Let f be analytic in the unit disk D={z∈C:|z|<1}, and S be the subclass of normalized univalent functions with f(0)=0, and f′(0)=1. Let F be the inverse function of f, given by F(z)=ω+∑n=2∞Anωn for some |ω|≤r0(f). Let S*⊂S be the subset of starlike functions in D, and C the subset of convex functions in D. We show that −1≤|A3|−|A2|≤3 for f∈S, the upper bound being sharp, and sharp upper and lower bounds for |A3|−|A2| for the more important subclasses of S* and C, and for some related classes of Bazilevič functions.

23 November 2016 in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
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DTDerek Keith Thomas
Derek Keith Thomas
SVSarika Verma
Sarika Verma
Let the function be analytic in and given by . For , denote by the class of strongly convex functions. We give sharp bounds for the initial coefficients of the inverse function of , showing that these estimates are the same as those for functions in , thus extending a classical result for convex functions. We also give invariance results for the second Hankel determinant , the first three coefficients of and Fekete–Szegö theorems.