On polyharmonic univalent mappings

In this paper, we introduce a class of complex-valued polyharmonic mappings, denoted by $HS_{p}(\lambda)$, and its subclass $HS_{p}^{0}(\lambda)$, where $\lambda\in [0,1]$ is a constant. These classes are natural generalizations of a class of mappings studied by Goodman in 1950's. We generalize the main results of Avci and Złotkiewicz from 1990's to the classes $HS_{p}(\lambda)$ and $HS_{p}^{0}(\lambda)$, showing that the mappings in $HS_{p}(\lambda)$ are univalent and sense preserving. We also prove that the mappings in $HS_{p}^{0}(\lambda)$ are starlike with respect to the origin, and characterize the extremal points of the above classes.