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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-interdisciplinary-mathematics</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-012X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0502</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIM-1856</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Pseudo starlike functions involving convex combination of two starlike functions</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Karthikeyan</surname>
            <given-names>K. R.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Applied Mathematics and Science, College of Engineering (Al Hail Caledonian Campus), National University of Science &amp; Technology, Al Hail, P. O. Box 2322, CPO Seeb 111, Oman</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Murugusundaramoorthy</surname>
            <given-names>G.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632014, India</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>28</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>485</fpage>
      <lpage>497</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>In this paper, we introduce a new class of functions involving a familiar analytic characterization that was used to obtain sufficient conditions for starlikeness. We have discussed the impact of the convex combination of two starlike functions. The results obtained here extend or unify the various other well-known and new results.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Analytic function</kwd>
        <kwd>Convex function</kwd>
        <kwd>Starlike function</kwd>
        <kwd>Bazilevič function</kwd>
        <kwd>Fekete-Szegö problem</kwd>
        <kwd>Differential subordination</kwd>
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