Negative observations concerning approximations from spaces generated by scattered shifts of functions vanishing at \(\infty\) (Q1335032)

Let \(\psi\) be the univariate cardinal spline of order \(n\) and \(S\) be the space of all infinite linear combinations of \(\{\psi(\cdot- \alpha)\}_{\alpha\in A}\), where \(A\) is a set of translation centers with no accumulation points. In this paper the following results are proved. If \(S\) provides positive approximation orders to infinitely differentiable compactly supported functions, then for any bounded interval \(I\) there exist coefficients \(\{c(\alpha,I)\}_{\alpha\in A}\) such that \(\sum_{\alpha\in A} c(\alpha,I)\psi(x- \alpha)= 1\) for \(x\in I\). Furthermore, one of the two following conditions holds: (1) There exists \(\alpha\in \mathbb{R}\) such that \(\alpha+ \mathbb{Z}\subset A\). (2) There exist \(\alpha_ k\in \mathbb{R}\), \(k= 1,2\), such that \(\alpha_ 1\neq \alpha_ 2\pmod\mathbb{Z}\), and such that, for each \(k\), \((\alpha_ k+ \mathbb{Z})\backslash A\) contains no more than \(n-1\) points. This shows also that \(S\) cannot approximate well unless the constant function belong, at least locally, to the space.