On the roper-suffridge extension operator

In 1995, Roper and Suffridge defined an extension operator which maps a locally biholomorphic function on the unit diskD in ℂ to a locally biholomorphic mapping on the unit ballB ⁿ in ℂⁿ. This extension operator preserves many important properties, e.g., convexity and starlikeness, etc. In this note, we introduce the family ofε starlike mappings, and prove that the Roper-Suffridge extension operator preserves theε starlikeness on some Reinhardt domains. This result includes many known results and solves an open problem of Graham and Kohr. Project supported by the National Science Foundation of China.