We investigate some aspects of maximum modulus sets in the boundary of a strictly pseudoconvex domain $D$ of dimension $N$. If $\Sigma \subset bD$ is a smooth manifold of dimension $N$ and a maximum modulus set, then it admits a unique foliation by compact interpolation manifolds. There is a semiglobal converse in the real analytic case. Two functions in $A^2\left(D\right)$ with the same smooth $N$-dimensional maximum modulus set are analytically related and are polynomially related if a certain homology class in $H_1(D,\mathbf{R})$ vanishes or if $\bar{D}\subset {\mathbf{C}}^N$ is polynomially...

Soit $K$ un compact polynomialement convexe de ${\mathbf{C}}^n$ et $V_K$ son “potentiel logarithmique extrémal” dans ${\mathbf{C}}^n$. Supposons que $K$ est régulier (i.e. $V_K$ continue) et soit $f$ une fonction holomorphe sur un voisinage de $K$. On construit alors une suite $\{{\mathbf{P}}_{\ell }{\}}_{\ell \ge 1}$ de polynôme de $n$ variables complexes avec deg$({\mathbf{P}}_{)}\le \ell$ pour $\ell \ge 1$, telle que l’erreur d’approximation ${\max }_{z\in K}|f\left(z\right)-P_{\ell }\left(z\right)|$ soit contrôlée de façon assez précise en fonction du “pseudorayon de convergence” de $f$ par rapport à $K$ et du degré de convergence $\ell$. Ce résultat est ensuite utilisé pour étendre...

We give a state-of-the-art survey of investigations concerning multivariate polynomial inequalities. A satisfactory theory of such inequalities has been developed due to applications of both the Gabrielov-Hironaka-Łojasiewicz subanalytic geometry and pluripotential methods based on the complex Monge-Ampère operator. Such an approach permits one to study various inequalities for polynomials restricted not only to nice (nonpluripolar) compact subsets of ℝⁿ or ℂⁿ but also their versions for pieces...