Cocycles Over Abelian TNS Actions

We study extensions of higher-rank Abelian TNS actions (i.e. hyperbolic and with a special structure of the stable distributions) by compact connected Lie groups. We show that up to a constant, there are only finitely many cohomology classes. We also show the existence of cocycles over higher-rank Abelian TNS actions that are not cohomologous to constant cocycles. This is in contrast to earlier results, showing that real valued cocycles, or small Lie group valued cocycles, over higher-rank Abelian actions are cohomologous to constants.