**Author details**

Rahul Boadh1 , Yogendra Kumar Rajoria<sup>1</sup> and Vallampati Ramachandra Prasad<sup>2</sup> \*

1 Department of the Mathematics, School of Basic and Applied Science, K.R. Mangalam University, Gurugram, Haryana, India

2 Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

\*Address all correspondence to: v.ramachandraprasad@vit.ac.in; rcpmaths@gmail.com

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