Shift Generated Haar Spaces on Compact Domains in the Complex Plane

Haar spaces are certain finite-dimensional subspaces of $\cc(K)$, where $K$ is a compact set and $\cc(K)$ is the Banach space of continuous functions defined on $K$ having values in $\C$. We characterize those Haar spaces which are generated by shifts applied to a single, analytic function for $K\subset\C$. This means that an arbitrary finite number of shifts generates Haar spaces by forming linear hulls. We have to distinguish two cases: (a) $K\not=\overline{K^\circ}$; (b) $K=\overline{K^\circ}$. It turns out that, in case (a), an analytic Haar space generator for dimensions one and two is already a universal Haar space generator for all dimensions. The geometrically simplest case that, in case (b), $K$ is convex with smooth boundary turns out to be the most difficult case. There is one numerical example in which the entire function $f:=1/\Gamma$ is interpolated in a shift generated Haar space of dimension four.