Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2009
Let X be a complex Banach space. We denote by B(X) the algebra of all bounded linear operators on X. Let = (T1, …, Tn) be a commuting n-tuple of operators on X. And let στ() and σ″() by Taylor's joint spectrum and the doubly commutant spectrum of , respectively. We refer the reader to Taylor [8] for the definition of στ() and σ″(), A point z = (z1,…, zn) of ℂn is in the joint approximate point spectrum σπ() of if there exists a sequence {xk} of unit vectors in X such that
∥(Ti – zi)xk∥→0 as k → ∞ for i = 1, 2,…, n.