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Analytic necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a circle-valued functionf to generate a cocycle which is a multiple of a coboundary. These conditions are then used to derive some other new criteria for cocycles to be coboundaries.
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This research was supported in part by an NSF grant DMS8600753.
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Baggett, L. On circle-valued cocycles of an ergodic measure-preserving transformation. Israel J. Math. 61, 29–38 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02776300
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