EN
A unital commutative Banach algebra 𝓐 is spectrally separable if for any two distinct non-zero multiplicative linear functionals φ and ψ on it there exist a and b in 𝓐 such that ab = 0 and φ(a)ψ(b) ≠ 0. Spectrally separable algebras are a special subclass of strongly harmonic algebras. We prove that a unital commutative Banach algebra 𝓐 is spectrally separable if there are enough elements in 𝓐 such that the corresponding multiplication operators on 𝓐 have the decomposition property (δ). On the other hand, if 𝓐 is spectrally separable, then for each a ∈ 𝓐 and each Banach left 𝓐 -module 𝒳 the corresponding multiplication operator $L_{a}$ on 𝒳 is super-decomposable. These two statements improve an earlier result of Baskakov.