In this note, we give an example of a domain whose d-balanced squeezing function is nonplurisubharmonic.

We prove that the Fridman invariant defined using the Carathéodory pseudodistance does not always go to 1 near strongly Levi pseudoconvex boundary points and it always goes to 0 near nonpseudoconvex boundary points. We also discuss whether Fridman invariants can be extended continuously to some boundary points of domains constructed by deleting compact subsets from other domains.

Motivated by works on extension sets in standard domains, we introduce a notion of the Carathéodory set that seems better suited for the methods used in proofs of results on characterization of extension sets. A special stress is put on a class of two-dimensional submanifolds in the tridisc that not only turns out to be Carathéodory but also provides examples of two-dimensional domains for which the celebrated Lempert Theorem holds. Additionally, a recently introduced notion of universal sets for the Carathéodory extremal problem is studied and new results on domains admitting (no) finite universal sets are given.

We show that the injective Kobayashi–Royden differential metric, as defined by Hahn, is upper semicontinous.

Some results for the Bergman functions in unbounded domains are shown. In particular, a class of unbounded Hartogs domains, which are Bergman complete and Bergman exhaustive, is given.

We proved that any hyperconvex manifold has a complete Bergman metric.

Let D be a bounded pseudoconvex domain in ℂn and ζ ∈ D. By KD and BD we denote the Bergman kernel and metric of D, respectively. Given a ball B = B(ζ, R), we study the behavior of the ratio KD/KD∩B (w) when w ∈ D ∩ B tends towards ζ. It is well-known, that it remains bounded from above and below by a positive constant. We show, that the ratio tends to 1, as w tends to ζ, under an additional assumption on the pluricomplex Green function D (·, w) of D with pole at w, namely that the diameter of the sublevel sets Aw :={z ∈ D | D (z, w) < −1} tends to zero, as w → ζ. A similar result is obtained also for the Bergman metric. In this case we also show that the extremal function associated to the Bergman kernel has the concentration of mass property introduced in [DiOh1], where the question was discussed how to recognize a weight function from the associated Bergman space. The hypothesis concerning the set Aw is satisfied for example, if the domain is regular in the sense of Diederich-Fornæss, ([DiFo2]).

We construct a bounded plane domain which is Bergman complete but for which the Bergman kernel does not tend to infinity as the point approaches the boundary.

It is shown, that the so-called Blaschke condition characterizes in any bounded smooth convex domain of finite type exactly the divisors which are zero sets of functions of the Nevanlinna class on the domain. The main tool is a non-isotropic L1 estimate for solutions of the Cauchy-Riemann equations on such domains, which are obtained by estimating suitable kernels of Berndtsson-Andersson type.