We consider a piecewise analytic expanding map f : [0, 1] → [0, 1] of degree d which preserves orientation, and an analytic positive potential g : [0, 1] → R. We address the analysis of the following problem: for a given analytic potential β log g, where β is a real constant, it is well known that there exists a real analytic (with a complex analytic extension to a small complex neighborhood of...