Holomorphic Poincaré lemma 2026-10-05
On a star-shaped holomorphic coordinate neighbourhood, a closed holomorphic differential form of positive degree has a holomorphic primitive. Radial integration gives the homotopy operator. This proves exactness of the holomorphic de Rham complex on stalks.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 118 5 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
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 functionDifferentiation under the integral and the closedness identity giveThus .
For exactness at , any holomorphic differential form of degree two is and is automatically -closed by dimension. DefineIts derivative isThese local primitives prove the holomorphic Poincaré lemma in the degrees needed here. Exactness on every stalk givesThis is sheaf exactness; the local primitives need not glue to global ones.