On the delbar-equation in a Banach space

Abstract

We show that on the unit ball of a certain separable Banach space there is a smooth delbar-closed (0,1)-form which is not locally delbar-exact. Further, the Dolbeault isomorphism theorem does not generalize to arbitrary Banach spaces. Lastly, the Newlander-Nirenberg theorem does not generalize to arbitrary smooth integrable almost complex Banach manifolds.

13 pages, AmS-TeX, to appear in Bull. Soc. Math. France