The holomorphic de Rham complex is exact locally, which is the criterion for an exact sequence of sheaves. Work in a small star-shaped holomorphic coordinate neighbourhood in , centred at zero. A holomorphic function has exactly when it is constant on this neighbourhood, giving exactness at and the injection of the constant sheaf.
For exactness at , let be holomorphic and -closed. Then . Define the holomorphic function
Differentiation under the integral and the closedness identity give
Thus .
For exactness at , any holomorphic differential form of degree two is and is automatically -closed by dimension. Define
Its derivative is
These local primitives prove the holomorphic Poincaré lemma in the degrees needed here. Exactness on every stalk gives
This is sheaf exactness; the local primitives need not glue to global ones.
Quasiconformal mapping Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-07
An orientation-preserving homeomorphism with locally weak derivatives and essentially bounded infinitesimal distortion. In holomorphic coordinates, its Beltrami coefficient satisfies , and the maximal dilatation is .
Let be a embedded submanifold of a complex manifold. If its tangent spaces are invariant under the almost complex structure induced by a complex atlas, choose ambient holomorphic coordinates making its tangent space at one point . The first coordinates restrict to a local real diffeomorphism by the inverse function theorem, so is locally the graph of a smooth function . Invariance of the tangent graph gives , the Cauchy-Riemann equations. Thus is holomorphic and these graph coordinates give the induced complex submanifold structure. This proves the result directly, without needing the general integrability theorem as an unproved step.