Alexander's capacity for intersections of ellipsoids in .
Alexander’s projective capacity for the polydisk and the ellipsoid in is computed. Sharper versions of two inequalities concerning this capacity and some other capacities in are given. A sequence of orthogonal polynomials with respect to an appropriately defined measure supported on a compact subset K in is proved to have an asymptotic behaviour in similar to that of the Siciak homogeneous extremal function associated with K.
Let K be a compact subset of . A sequence of nonnegative numbers defined by means of extremal points of K with respect to homogeneous polynomials is proved to be convergent. Its limit is called the homogeneous transfinite diameter of K. A few properties of this diameter are given and its value for some compact subsets of is computed.
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