Author: Michal Marvan

Given a zero-curvature representation a, the horizontal gauge cohomology group `H<sup>1</sup><sub>a</sub> is shown to contain obstructions to removability of the ``spectral parameter'' of a. A method to compute `H¹_a is suggested.

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