Consider the high-order heat-type equation ∂u/∂t = ±∂ N u/∂x N for an integer N > 2 and introduce the related Markov pseudo-process (X(t)) t 0 . In this paper, we study several functionals related to (X(t)) t 0 : the maximum M (t) and minimum m(t) up to time t; the hitting times τ + a and τ − a of the half lines (a, +∞) and (−∞, a) respectively. We provide explicit expressions for the distributions of the vectors (X(t), M (t)) and (X(t), m(t)), as well as those of the vectors (τ + a , X(τ + a )) and (τ − a , X(τ − a )).AMS 2000 subject classifications: primary 60G20; secondary 60J25. Key words and phrases: pseudo-process, joint distribution of the process and its maximum/minimum, first hitting time and place, Multipoles, Spitzer identity.where κ N = (−1) 1+N/2 if N is even and κ N = ±1 if N is odd. Let p(t; z) be the fundamental solution of Eq. (1.1) and put p(t; x, y) = p(t; x − y).The function p is characterized by its Fourier transform +∞ −∞ e iuξ p(t; ξ) dξ = e κ N t(−iu) N .( 1.2) With Eq. (1.1) one associates a Markov pseudo-process (X(t)) t 0 defined on the real line and governed by a signed measure P, which is not a probability measure, according to the usual rules of ordinary stochastic processes: P x {X(t) ∈ dy} = p(t; x, y) dy