International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 
Volume 26 (2001), Issue 5, Pages 317-319
doi:10.1155/S0161171201004550

Sufficient conditions for meromorphic starlikeness and close-to-convexity of order α

Nak Eun Cho1 and Shigeyoshi Owa2

 1Department of Applied Mathematics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 605-737, Korea
2Department of Mathematics, Kinki University, Osaka, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan
Received 7 February 2000

Abstract

The object of the present paper is to derive a property of certain meromorphic functions in the punctured unit disk. Our main theorem contains certain sufficient conditions for starlikeness and close-to-convexity of order α of meromorphic functions.