We study consequences and applications of the folklore statement that every double complex over a field decomposes into so-called squares and zigzags. This result makes questions about the associated cohomology groups and spectral sequences easy to understand. We describe a notion of 'universal' quasi-isomorphism and the behaviour of the decomposition under tensor product and compute the Grothendieck ring of the category of bounded double complexes over a field with finite cohomologies up to such quasi-isomorphism (and some variants).Applying the theory to the double complexes of smooth complex valued forms on compact complex manifolds, we obtain a Poincaré duality for higher pages of the Frölicher spectral sequence, construct a functorial three-space decomposition of the middle cohomology, give an example of a map between compact complex manifolds which does not respect the Hodge filtration strictly, compute the Bott-Chern and Aeppli cohomology for Calabi-Eckmann manifolds, introduce new numerical bimeromorphic invariants, show that the non-Kählerness degrees are not bimeromorphic invariants in dimensions higher than three and that the ∂∂lemma and some related properties are bimeromorphic invariants if, and only if, they are stable under restriction to complex submanifolds.

We compute the double complex of smooth complex-valued differential forms on projective bundles over and blow-ups of compact complex manifolds up to a suitable notion of quasi-isomorphism. This simultaneously yields formulas for "all" cohomologies naturally associated with this complex (in particular, de Rham, Dolbeault, Bott-Chern and Aeppli). *

We study almost complex structures with lower bounds on the rank of the Nijenhuis tensor. Namely, we show that they satisfy an h-principle. As a consequence, all parallelizable manifolds and all manifolds of dimension 2n ≥ 10 (respectively ≥ 6) admit a almost complex structure whose Nijenhuis tensor has maximal rank everywhere (resp. is nowhere trivial). For closed 4-manifolds, the existence of such structures is characterized in terms of topological invariants. Moreover, we show that the Dolbeault cohomology of non-integrable almost complex structures is often infinite dimensional (even on compact manifolds).

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For every positive integer r, we introduce two new cohomologies, that we call E r {E_{r}} -Bott–Chern and E r {E_{r}} -Aeppli, on compact complex manifolds. When r = 1 {r\kern-1.0pt=\kern-1.0pt1} , they coincide with the usual Bott–Chern and Aeppli cohomologies, but they are coarser, respectively finer, than these when r ≥ 2 {r\geq 2} . They provide analogues in the Bott–Chern–Aeppli context of the E r {E_{r}} -cohomologies featuring in the Frölicher spectral sequence of the manifold. We apply these new cohomologies in several ways to characterise the notion of page- ( r - 1 ) {(r-1)} - ∂ ⁡ ∂ ¯ {\partial\bar{\partial}} -manifolds that we introduced very recently. We also prove analogues of the Serre duality for these higher-page Bott–Chern and Aeppli cohomologies and for the spaces featuring in the Frölicher spectral sequence. We obtain a further group of applications of our cohomologies to the study of Hermitian-symplectic and strongly Gauduchon metrics for which we show that they provide the natural cohomological framework.