IJAAMM Int. J. Adv. Appl. Math. and Mech. 6(3) (2019) 27 – 34 (ISSN: 2347-2529) Journal homepage: www.ijaamm.com International Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Differential subordination results for Abbas-Starlike function in the upper half-plane Research Article Abbas Kareem Wanas * Department of Mathematics,College of Science, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq Received 10 January 2019; accepted (in revised version) 02 March 2019 Abstract: In the present paper, we define new class of analytic functions in the upper half-plane D = {z C : Re (z ) > 0}. Also, by investigating appropriate classes of admissible functions, we obtain differential subordination results for functions belongs to this new class. MSC: 130C45 30C80 Keywords: Differential subordination Abbas-starlike functions Upper half-plane Admissible functions © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). 1. Introduction Let H = H (D) stands for the class of functions f : D -→ C which are analytic in the upper half-plane D = {z C : Re (z ) > 0} that have the hydrodynamic normalization (see [1, 2, 10]) lim D3z →∞ ( f (z ) - z ) = 0. Stankiewicz [10] introduced two classes are the class S * (D) of starlike functions and the class K (D) of convex func- tions as follows: S * (D) = f H (D): Re f 0 (z ) f (z ) < 0, z D and K (D) = f H (D): Re f 00 (z ) f 0 (z ) > 0, z D . Next, we define new class for f H (D) as follows: Definition 1.1. A function f H (D) is said to be Abbas-starlike function, if it satisfies the geometric condition: Re ( ( f 0 (z ) ) γ f (z ) ) < 0, γ 1, z D. We denote by A γ the family of all Abbas-starlike functions in D. It is observed that for γ = 1, we have the class of starlike functions in D. * E-mail address: abbas.kareem.w@qu.edu.iq.