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The paper is concerned with the best constants in the Bernstein and Markov inequalities on a compact set $E\subset {ℂ}^N$. We give some basic properties of these constants and we prove that two extremal-like functions defined in terms of the Bernstein constants are plurisubharmonic and very close to the Siciak extremal function ${\Phi }_E$. Moreover, we show that one of these extremal-like functions is equal to ${\Phi }_E$ if E is a nonpluripolar set with $li{m}_{n\to \infty }Mₙ{\left(E\right)}^{1/n}=1$ where $Mₙ\left(E\right):=sup{\left|\right|\left|gradP\right|\left|\right|}_E/{\left|\right|P\left|\right|}_E$, the supremum is taken over all polynomials P of N variables of total...

Let E be a compact set in the complex plane, $g_E$ be the Green function of the unbounded component of ${ℂ}_{\infty }\setminus E$ with pole at infinity and $Mₙ\left(E\right)=sup\left(\right||P^{\text{'}}{\left|\right|}_E{)/(\left|\right|P\left|\right|}_E)$ where the supremum is taken over all polynomials ${P|}_E\not\equiv 0$ of degree at most n, and ${\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_E=sup\left|f\right(z\left)\right|:z\in E$. The paper deals with recent results concerning a connection between the smoothness of $g_E$ (existence, continuity, Hölder or Lipschitz continuity) and the growth of the sequence ${Mₙ\left(E\right)}_{n=1,2,...}$. Some additional conditions are given for special classes of sets.

The paper deals with logarithmic capacities, an important tool in pluripotential theory. We show that a class of capacities, which contains the L-capacity, has the following product property: $C_{\nu }\left(E₁\times E₂\right)=min(C_{\nu ₁}\left(E₁\right),C_{\nu ₂}\left(E₂\right))$, where $E_j$ and ${\nu }_j$ are respectively a compact set and a norm in ${ℂ}^{N_j}$ (j = 1,2), and ν is a norm in ${ℂ}^{N₁+N₂}$, ν = ν₁⊕ₚ ν₂ with some 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. For a convex subset E of ${ℂ}^N$, denote by C(E) the standard L-capacity and by ${\omega }_E$ the minimal width of E, that is, the minimal Euclidean distance between two supporting hyperplanes in...