Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2001 / iii / Paper 15 / 4 / b / Solution

Complex conjugation preserves the real Kähler form and interchanges $\partial ,\bar{\partial }$ and their formal adjoints. Conjugating the permitted identity among the Kähler identities therefore yields $[\Lambda ,\bar{\partial }]=-i{\partial }^{\ast }$. The same nilpotence calculation as in part (a) gives $\bar{\partial }{\partial }^{\ast }+{\partial }^{\ast }\bar{\partial }=0$. Now expand $d=\partial +\bar{\partial }$ and $d^{\ast }={\partial }^{\ast }+{\bar{\partial }}^{\ast }$:Both mixed anticommutators vanish, proving $\boxed{{\Delta }_d={\Delta }_{\partial }+{\Delta }_{\bar{\partial }}}$.