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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
A definition of an isometric shift operator on a Banach space is given which extends the usual definition of a shift operator on a separable Hilbert space. It is shown that there is no such shift on many of the common Banach spaces of continuous functions. The associated ideas of a semi-shift and a backward shift are also introduced and studied in the case of continuous function spaces.