The Kähler potential is a real-valued function 
on a Kähler manifold
for which the Kähler form 
can be written as 
. Here, the operators
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(1)
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and
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(2)
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are called the del and del bar operator, respectively.
For example, in 
,
the function 
is a Kähler potential for the standard Kähler form, because
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(3)
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(4)
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(5)
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(6)
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