While I learn about $\partial$ and $\bar{\partial}$ operators, I had some questions about the reason why people prefer $\bar\partial$ over $\partial$. Specifically,
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When defining Dolbeault cohomology, one uses $\bar{\partial}$ but not $\partial$. I wonder whether there happens any problem if one define a cohomology by $\partial$. Or is this because it isn't interesting?
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Any textbook on complex variables say only about $\bar{\partial}$-Poincare lemma. Is there a version with $\partial$? If not, where the difference between two operators fundamentally comes?
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For a holomorphic vector bundle $E$, we define the operator $\bar{\partial}_E$ only. Again why don't we define $\partial_E$?
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Let $(E,h)$ be an hermitian holomorphic vector bundle on a compact hermitian manifold $(X,g)$. When we show that the operator $\bar\partial_E^*:=-\bar*_{E^*}\circ\bar\partial_{E^*}\circ\bar*_E$ on $A^{p,q}(X,E)$ is adjoint to $\bar\partial_E$, one uses $$\int_X\bar\partial(\alpha\wedge\bar*_E\beta)=\int_X d(\alpha\wedge\bar*_E\beta)$$ for $\alpha\in A^{p,q}(X,E)$ and $\beta\in A^{p,q+1}(X,E)$(c.f. "complex geometry" by Huybrechts, p.170). Here how we know $$\int_X\partial(\alpha\wedge\bar*_E\beta)=0$$? Again, the two operators appear to have different rules.
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