Note on the second derivative of bounded analytic functions

Abstract

Assume $z_0$ lies in the open unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ and $g$ is an analytic self-map of $\mathbb{D}$. We will determine the region of values of $g^{\prime \prime }(z_0)$ in terms of $z_0$, $g(z_0)$ and the hyperbolic derivative of $g$ at $z_0$, and give the form of all the extremal functions. In particular, we obtain a smaller sharp upper bound for $|g^{\prime \prime }(z_0)|$ than Ruscheweyh's inequality for the case of the second derivative. Moreover, we use a different method to obtain Sz{á}sz's inequality, which provides a sharp upper bound for $|g^{\prime \prime }(z_0)|$ depending only on $|z_0|$.

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