Starlikeness of Certain Non-Univalent Functions

Abstract

We consider three classes of functions defined using the class $\mathcal{P}$ of all analytic functions $p(z)=1+cz+\cdots$ on the open unit disk having positive real part and study several radius problems for these classes. The first class consists of all normalized analytic functions $f$ with $f/g\in \mathcal{P}$ and $g/(zp)\in \mathcal{P}$ for some normalized analytic function $g$ and $p\in \mathcal{P}$. The second class is defined by replacing the condition $f/g\in \mathcal{P}$ by $|(f/g)-1|<1$ while the other class consists of normalized analytic functions $f$ with $f/(zp)\in \mathcal{P}$ for some $p\in \mathcal{P}$. We have determined radii so that the functions in these classes to belong to various subclasses of starlike functions. These subclasses includes the classes of starlike functions of order $\alpha$, parabolic starlike functions, as well as the classes of starlike functions associated with lemniscate of Bernoulli, reverse lemniscate, sine function, a rational function, cardioid, lune, nephroid and modified sigmoid function.