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.
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.