Properties of a subclass of analytic functions defined by Riemann-Liouville fractional integral applied to convolution product of multiplier transformation and Ruscheweyh derivative

The contribution of fractional calculus in the development of different areas of research is well known. This article presents investigations involving fractional calculus in the study of analytic functions. Riemann-Liouville fractional integral is known for its extensive applications in geometric function theory. New contributions were previously obtained by applying the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral to the convolution product of multiplier transformation and Ruscheweyh derivative. For the study presented in this article, the resulting operator is used following the line of research that concerns the study of certain new subclasses of analytic functions using fractional operators. Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of the convolution product of multiplier transformation and Ruscheweyh derivative is applied here for introducing a new class of analytic functions. Investigations regarding this newly introduced class concern the usual aspects considered by researchers in geometric function theory targeting the conditions that a function must meet to be part of this class and the properties that characterize the functions that fulfil these conditions. Theorems and corollaries regarding neighborhoods and their inclusion relation involving the newly defined class are stated, closure and distortion theorems are proved, and coefficient estimates are obtained involving the functions belonging to this class. Geometrical properties such as radii of convexity, starlikeness, and close-to-convexity are also obtained for this new class of functions.