简介:ThispaperpresentsadiscussiononaproblemsuggestedbyN.Salinas(J.OperatorTheory,Vol.10,1983),i.e.,ifT=(T1,T2,…,Tn)isacommutingn-tupleofhyponormaloperatorsonacomplexHilbertspace,dowehave(1)(2)δ(T-μ)=dist(μ,σl(T)),μ∈Cn?Itisprovedthattheproblems(1)and(2)arebothtrueforsomecommutingn-tuplesofsemihyponormaloperators.Ingeneralcase,problem(1)hasanegativeanswer.Asanap-plication,wepointoutthatthereexistsacommutingn-tupleofhyponormaloperatorsT(n≥2),suchthat|λ|<,whereσT(T)denotesJ.L.Taylor’sjointspectraofT,eveniftheconditionofTaylor’sjointspectraofTisgiven.