Stable functions and Vietoris' theorem

An analytic function f(z) in the unit disc D is called stable if s_n(f,·)/f?1/f holds for all for . Here s_n stands for the nth partial sum of the Taylor expansion about the origin of f, and ? denotes the subordination of analytic functions in . We prove that (1−z)^λ, λ∈−1,1], are stable. The stability of turns out to be equivalent to a famous result of Vietoris on non-negative trigonometric sums. We discuss some generalizations of these results, and related conjectures, always with an eye on applications to positivity results for trigonometric and other polynomials.