We show that the sectional capacity of an adelic subset of a
projective variety over a number field is a quasi-canonical limit of
arithmetic top self-intersection numbers, and we establish the
functorial properties of extremal plurisubharmonic Green's
functions. We also present a conjecture that the sectional capacity
should be a top selfintersection number in an appropriate adelic
arithmetic intersection theory.
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