AccScience Publishing / IJOCTA / Volume 16 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.36922/IJOCTA026090034
RESEARCH ARTICLE

External-field optimality of logarithmic coeffcients with applications to geometric image analysis

Rabha W. Ibrahim1,2†∗ Dumitru Baleanu3† Soheil Salahshour4,5
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1 Department of Mathematics, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences SIMATS, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Information and Communication Technology Research Group, Scientific Research Center, Al-Ayen University, Thi-Qar, Nasiriyah, Iraq
3 Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
4 Advanced Computing Lab, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Okan University, Turkey
5 Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
IJOCTA 2026, 16(3), 1179–1215; https://doi.org/10.36922/IJOCTA026090034
Received: 1 March 2026 | Revised: 23 March 2026 | Accepted: 26 March 2026 | Published online: 9 June 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

This paper develops an external-field optimization framework for logarithmic coefficients of multiplier-defined univalent functions and establishes optimality principles with applications to geometric image analysis. Using the Herglotz representation, logarithmic coefficients are expressed as nonlinear moment functionals of probability measures on the unit circle, where multiplier coefficients act as an external field imposing admissibility constraints. A general Euler–Lagrange condition is derived, yielding a nonlinear equilibrium equation that characterizes extremal solutions. When the external-field potential admits a unique maximizer, the extremal measure collapses to a one-point distribution, leading to explicit optimal special-function solutions. The theoretical framework is applied to a dataset of citrus lesion images. After segmentation and conformal normalization of lesion regions, approximate logarithmic coefficients are computed from boundary harmonic expansions. A distortion index and harmonic separation criterion are introduced, and a coefficient separation theorem is verified numerically, demonstrating that geometric differences in lesion morphology correspond to measurable differences in logarithmic coefficient distributions. The results provide a mathematically rigorous connection between nonlinear external-field optimization, conformal special-function representations, and shape-based image descriptors. This approach offers a theoretically grounded and conformally invariant methodology for analyzing geometric irregularity in biomedical and agricultural imaging.

Keywords
Logarithmic coefficients
Analytic function
Herglotz representation
Coefficient bounds
Univalent function
Image processing
Open unit disk
Extremal problems
Optimal bound
Multiplier-defined subclasses
Funding
None.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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