Close-to-convexity properties of basic hypergeometric functions using their Taylor coefficients

In this paper, we find the conditions on parameters a, b, c and q such that the basic hypergeometric function zphi(a, b; c; q, z) and its q-Alexander transform are close-to-convex (and hence univalent) in the unit disc D:={z: |z|<1} .

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