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We establish a criterion for local boundedness and hence normality of a family $\F$ of analytic functions on a domain $D$ in the complex plane whose corresponding family of derivatives is locally bounded. Furthermore we investigate the…

We consider the family of all meromorphic functions $f$ of the form $$ f(z)=\frac{1}{z}+b_0+b_1z+b_2z^2+\cdots $$ analytic and locally univalent in the puncture disk $\mathbb{D}_0:=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:\,0<|z|<1\}$. Our first objective in this…

We show that a family of meromorphic functions in the unit disk $\dk$ whose spherical derivatives are uniformly bounded away from zero is normal. Furthermore, we show that for each $f$ meromorphic in $\dk$ we have $\inf_{z\in\dk} f^#(z)\le…

Consider a sequence of meromorphic functions $(f_n)_n$. This paper presents a technique that enables the transfer of convergence properties from $(f_n^{(m+1)}/f_n^{(m)})_n$ to subsequences of $(f_n^{(m)}/f_n^{(m-1)})_n$. As an application,…

We show that the family ${\cal F}_k$ of all meromorphic functions $f$ in a domain $D$ satisfying $$\frac{|f^{(k)}|}{1+|f|}(z)\ge C \qquad \mbox{ for all } z\in D$$ (where $k$ is a natural number and $C>0$) is quasi-normal. The proof relies…

Let D be a domain, n, k be positive integers and n >= K+3. Let F be a family of functions meromorphic in D. If each f in F satisfies (f^n)^(k) not equal to 1 for z in D, then F is normal family. This result was proved by Schwick. In this…

In this article, we consider the family $\mathcal{F}(\alpha)$ defined for $\alpha \in (0, 3]$ by \begin{align*} {\rm Re}\left(1+\frac{zf''(z)}{f'(z)}\right) > 1 - \frac{\alpha}{2} \quad \text{for } z \in \mathbb{D}. \end{align*} Our primary…

Schwick, in [6], states that let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of meromorphic functions on a domain $D$ and if for each $f\in\mathcal{F}$, $(f^n)^{(k)}\neq 1$, for $z\in D$, where $n, k$ are positive integers such that $n\geq k+3$, then…

We show that a family ${\cal F}$ of meromorphic functions in a domain $D$ satisfying $$\frac{|f^{(k)}|}{1+|f^{(j)}|^\alpha}(z)\ge C \qquad \mbox{for all} z\in D \mbox{and all} f\in {\cal F}$$ (where $k$ and $j$ are integers with $k>j\ge 0$…

It is proved that any family of analytic functions with spherical derivative uniformly bounded away from zero ist normal.

Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the class of analytic functions $f$ on the unit disc $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:\;|z|<1\}$ normalized by $f(0)=0$ and $f^{\prime}(0)=1$. In the present article, we consider and $\mathcal{F}(c)$ the subclasses of…

Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the class of all analytic functions $f$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}:=\{z\in\mathbb{C}: |z|<1\}$ such that $f(0)=f'(0)-1=0$. In this paper, we introduce a new subclass $\mathcal{C}_\theta(\gamma)$ of $\mathcal{A}$…

Consider the family of locally univalent analytic functions $h$ in the unit disk $|z|<1$ with the normalization $h(0)=0$, $h'(0)=1$ and satisfying the condition $${\real} \left( \frac{z h''(z)}{\alpha h'(z)}\right) <\frac{1}{2} ~\mbox{ for…

Quantitative estimates are obtained for the (finite) valence of functions analytic in the unit disk with Schwarzian derivative that is bounded or of slow growth. A harmonic mapping is shown to be uniformly locally univalent with respect to…

Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the class of analytic functions $f$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ normalized by $f(0)=0$, $f'(0)=1$. In the present article, we obtain the sharp estimates of the Schwarzian norm for…

We show that the family of all holomorphic functions $f$ in a domain $D$ satisfying $$\frac{|f^{(k)}|}{1+|f|}(z)\le C \qquad \mbox{ for all } z\in D$$ (where $k$ is a natural number and $C>0$) is quasi-normal. Furthermore, we give a general…

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the class of analytic functions $f$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ with the normalized conditions $f(0)=0$, $f'(0)=1$. For $-\pi/2<\alpha<\pi/2$ and $0\le \beta<1$, let…

We prove that if D is a domain in C, alpha>1 and c>0, then the family F of functions meromorphic in D such that |f'(z)|/(1+|f(z)|^alpha)>c for every z in D is normalin D. For alpha=1, the same assumptions imply quasi-normality but not…

The Schwarzian derivative plays a fundamental role in complex analysis, differential equations, and modular forms. In this paper, we investigate its higher-order generalizations, known as higher Schwarzians, and their connections to…

Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the class of analytic functions $f$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ normalized by $f(0)=0$, $f'(0)=1$. For $-\pi/2<\alpha<\pi/2$, let $\mathcal{S}_{\alpha}$ be the subclass of $\mathcal{A}$…