We establish a lower estimate for the Kobayashi-Royden infinitesimal pseudometric on an almost complex manifold $(M,J)$ admitting a bounded strictly plurisubharmonic function. We apply this result to study the boundary behaviour of the metric on a strictly pseudoconvex domain in $M$ and to give a sufficient condition for the complete hyperbolicity of a domain in $(M,J)$.

In this paper we extend the results on analytic continuation of germs of holomorphic mappings from a real analytic hypersurface to a real algebraic hypersurface to the case when the target hypersurface is of higher dimension than the source. More precisely, we prove the following: Let $M$ be a connected smooth real analytic minimal hypersurface in $C^n$, $M^{\prime }$ be a compact strictly pseudoconvex real algebraic hypersurface in $C^N$, $1\<n\le N$. Suppose that $f$ is a germ of a holomorphic map at a point $p$ in $M$ and $f\left(M\right)$ is in...