The paper deals with the characterization of generalized order and generalized type of entire functions in several complex variables in terms of the coefficients of the development with respect to the sequence of extremal polynomials and the best
L p -approximation and interpolation errors, 0 <
p ≤ ∞, on a compact set
K with respect to the set
$K_r = left{z in mathbb{C}^n, {rm exp} (V_K (z)) leq rright}$
where
V K is the Siciak extremal function of a L-regular compact set
K or
V K is the pluricomplex Green function with a pole at infinity. It has been noticed that in the study of growth of entire functions, the set
K r has not been used so extensively in comparison to disk. Our results apply satisfactorily for slow growth in
({mathbb{C}^n}) , replacing the circle
({{z in mathbb{C}; |z| = r}}) by the set
K r and improve and extend various results of Harfaoui (Int J Maths Math Sci 2010:1–15,
2010), Seremeta (Am Math Soc Transl 88(2):291–301,
1970), Shah (J Approx Theory 19:315–324,
1977) and Vakarchuk and Zhir (Ukr Math J 54(9):1393–1401,
2002).