International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 736746, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/736746

General approach to regions of variability via subordination of harmonic mappings

Sh. Chen1 , S. Ponnusamy2 and X. Wang1

1Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China
2Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India

Abstract

Using subordination, we determine the regions of variability of several subclasses of harmonic mappings. We also graphically illustrate the regions of variability for several sets of parameters for certain special cases.