Alexander’s projective capacity for polydisks and 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.