Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional $d$-bounded Stein manifold $M$, i.e., a complex $n$-dimensional manifold $M$ admitting a smooth strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion $ρ$ and endowed with the Kähler metric whose fundamental form is $ω=i\partial\overline{\partial}ρ$, such that $i\overline{\partial}ρ$ has bounded $L^\infty$ norm. We prove a vanishing result for $W^{1,2}$ harmonic forms with respect to the Bott-Chern Laplacian on $M$.

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