HYPERBOLIC CURVATURE AND K-CONVEX FUNCTIONS

Let $\gamma$ be a $C_2$ curve in the open unit disk $\mathbb{D}. Flinn and Osgood proved that $K_{\mathbb{D}}(z,\gamma){\geq}1$ for all $z{\in}{\gamma}$ if and only if the curve ${\Large f}o{\gamma}$ is convex for every convex conformal mapping $\Large f$ of $\mathbb{D}, where $K_{\mathbb{D}}(z,\;\gamma)$ denotes the hyperbolic curvature of $\gamma$ at the point z. In this paper we establish a generalization of the Flinn-Osgood characterization for a curve with the hyperbolic curvature at least 1.