On the spectrum of hyponormal operators (Q1107060)

Let \(T=X+iY\) be a bounded hyponormal operator on a separable complex Hilbert space, and let \(T_{(k)}=kT_+ + (1-k)T_-\), where \[ T_\pm = s - \lim_{t\to\pm\infty} X + i \exp(itX)Y \exp(-it X) = X + iY_\pm, \] existing for a hyponormal operator \(T\). Then we have an important result about the spectrum of \(T\), i.e., \(\sigma(T)=\cup_{0 \leq k \leq1} \sigma (T_{(k)})\). In the present paper, the author gives a simple proof of this result and extends it to the case of unbounded hyponormal operators with bounded imaginary part and doubly commuting \(n\)-tuples of hyponormal operators.