ON CONVEX COMBINATIONS OF CONVEX HARMONIC MAPPINGS

Abstract

The family F-lambda of orientation-preserving harmonic functions f = h + (g) over bar in the unit disc D (normalised in the standard way) satisfying h' (z) + g' (z) = 1/(1 + lambda z)(1 + (lambda) over barz), z is an element of D, for some lambda is an element of partial derivative D, along with their rotations, play an important role among those functions that are harmonic and orientation-preserving and map the unit disc onto a convex domain. The main theorem in this paper generalises results in recent literature by showing that convex combinations of functions in F-lambda are convex.