Note to the paper by R. Hempel, A. M. Hinz, and H. Kalf: On the Essential Spectrum of Schrödinger Operators with Spherically Symmetric Potentials.
The paper concerns operators of deformed structure like q-normal and q-hyponormal operators with the deformation parameter q being a positive number different from 1. In particular, an example of a q-hyponormal operator with empty spectrum is given, and q-hyponormality is characterized in terms of some operator inequalities.