Universität Kassel, FB 17 Mathematik/Informatik, AG Computational Mathematics, Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
Abstract:
We determine for several ranges of real parameters the order of starlikeness of the shifted Gauss hypergeometric function and we give some consequences of our results, in particular some mapping properties of the Carlson-Shaffer convolution operator.