%0 Journal Article %T A note on -hyponormal operators %A Ch¨­ Muneo %A Huruya Tadasi %A Kim Young Ok %J Journal of Inequalities and Applications %D 2002 %I Springer %X Let be a -hyponormal operator with the polar decomposition . In this paper, we show the following: (1) If is normal, then is normal. (2) If , then is also -hyponormal. (3) There exists a -hyponormal operator such that and . %K w-hyponormal operator %K p-hyponormal operator %K Furuta inequality %U http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/7/268130