Boundedness of Generalized Riesz Transforms on Orlicz–Hardy Spaces Associated to Operators

Let ${\Phi}$ be a continuous, strictly increasing and concave function on (0, ∞) of critical lower type index ${p_\Phi^- \in(0,\,1]}$ . Let L be an injective operator of type ω having a bounded H _∞ functional calculus and satisfying the k-Davies–Gaffney estimates with ${k \in {\mathbb Z}_+}$ . In this paper, the authors first introduce an Orlicz–Hardy space ${H^{\Phi}_{L}(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ in terms of the non-tangential L-adapted square function and then establish its molecular characterization. As applications, the authors prove that the generalized Riesz transform ${D_{\gamma}L^{-\delta/(2k)}}$ is bounded from the Orlicz–Hardy space ${H^{\Phi}_{L}(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ to the Orlicz space ${L^{\widetilde{\Phi}}(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ when ${p_\Phi^- \in (0, \frac{n}{n+ \delta - \gamma}]}$ , ${0 < \gamma \le \delta < \infty}$ and ${\delta- \gamma < n (\frac{1}{p_-(L)}-\frac{1}{p_+(L)})}$ , or from ${H^{\Phi}_{L}(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ to the Orlicz–Hardy space ${H^{\widetilde \Phi}(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ when ${p_\Phi^-\in (\frac{n}{n + \delta+ \lfloor \gamma \rfloor- \gamma},\,\frac{n}{n+ \delta- \gamma}]}$ , ${1\le \gamma \le \delta < \infty}$ and ${\delta- \gamma < n (\frac{1}{p_-(L)}-\frac{1}{p_+(L)})}$ , or from ${H^{\Phi}_{L}(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ to the weak Orlicz–Hardy space ${WH^\Phi(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ when ${\gamma = \delta}$ and ${p_\Phi=n/(n + \lfloor \gamma \rfloor)}$ or ${p_\Phi^-=n/(n + \lfloor \gamma \rfloor)}$ with ${p_\Phi^-}$ attainable, where ${\widetilde{\Phi}}$ is an Orlicz function whose inverse function ${\widetilde{\Phi}^{-1}}$ is defined by ${\widetilde{\Phi}^{-1}(t):=\Phi^{-1}(t)t^{\frac{1}{n}(\gamma- \delta)}}$ for all ${t \in (0,\,\infty)}$ , ${p_\Phi}$ denotes the strictly critical lower type index of ${\Phi}$ , ${\lfloor \gamma \rfloor}$ the maximal integer not more than ${\gamma}$ and ${(p_-(L),\,p_+(L))}$ the range of exponents ${p \in[1,\, \infty]}$ for which the semigroup ${\{e^{-tL}\}_{t >0 }}$ is bounded on ${L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)}$ .     

An Index Formula in Connection with Meromorphic Approximation

Let $\Phi $ be a continuous $n\times n$ matrix-valued function on the unit circle $\mathbb T $ such that the $(k-1)$ st singular value of the Hankel operator with symbol $\Phi $ is greater than the $k$ th singular value. In this case, it is well-known that $\Phi $ has a unique superoptimal meromorphic approximant $Q$ in $H^{\infty }_{(k)}$ ; that is, $Q$ has at most $k$ poles in the unit disc $\mathbb D $ (in the sense that the McMillan degree of $Q$ in $\mathbb D $ is at most $k$ ) and $Q$ minimizes the essential suprema of singular values $s_{j}\left((\Phi -Q)(\zeta )\right)\!, j\ge 0$ , with respect to the lexicographic ordering. For each $j\ge 0$ , the essential supremum of $s_{j}\left((\Phi -Q)(\zeta )\right)$ is called the $j$ th superoptimal singular value of degree $k$ of $\Phi $ . We prove that if $\Phi $ has $n$ non-zero superoptimal singular values of degree $k$ , then the Toeplitz operator $T_{\Phi -Q}$ with symbol $\Phi -Q$ is Fredholm and has index $$ \mathrm{ind}T_{\Phi -Q}=\dim \ker T_{\Phi -Q}=2k+\dim \mathcal E , $$ where $\mathcal E =\{ \xi \in \ker H_{Q}: \Vert H_{\Phi }\xi \Vert _{2}=\Vert (\Phi -Q)\xi \Vert _{2}\}$ and $H_{\Phi }$ denotes the Hankel operator with symbol $\Phi $ . This result can in fact be extended from continuous matrix-valued functions to the wider class of $k$ -admissible matrix-valued functions, i.e. essentially bounded $n\times n$ matrix-valued functions $\Phi $ on $\mathbb T $ for which the essential norm of the Hankel operator $H_{\Phi }$ is strictly less than the smallest non-zero superoptimal singular value of degree $k$ of $\Phi $ .     

Composition Operators on Spaces of Fractional Cauchy Transforms

For ?? > 0, the Banach space ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ is defined as the collection of functions f which can be represented as integral transforms of an appropriate kernel against a Borel measure defined on the unit circle T. Let ?? be an analytic self-map of the unit disc D. The map ?? induces a composition operator on ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ if ${C_{\Phi}(f) = f \circ \Phi \in \mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ for any function ${f \in \mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ . Various conditions on ?? are given, sufficient to imply that C _?? is bounded on ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ , in the case 0 < ?? < 1. Several of the conditions involve ???? and the theory of multipliers of the space ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ . Relations are found between the behavior of C _?? and the membership of ?? in the Dirichlet spaces. Conditions given in terms of the generalized Nevanlinna counting function are shown to imply that ?? induces a bounded composition operator on ${\mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ , in the case 1/2 ?? ?? < 1. For such ??, examples are constructed such that ${\| \Phi \|_{\infty} = 1}$ and ${C_{\Phi}: \mathcal{F}_{\alpha} \rightarrow \mathcal{F}_{\alpha}}$ is bounded.     

The topology of parabolic character varieties of free groups

Let $G$ be a complex affine algebraic reductive group, and let $K\,\subset \, G$ be a maximal compact subgroup. Fix h $\,:=\,(h_{1}\,,\ldots \,,h_{m})\,\in \, K^{m}$ . For $n\, \ge \, 0$ , let $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ (respectively, $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{K}$ ) be the space of equivalence classes of representations of the free group on $m+n$ generators in $G$ (respectively, $K$ ) such that for each $1\le i\le m$ , the image of the $i$ -th free generator is conjugate to $h_{i}$ . These spaces are parabolic analogues of character varieties of free groups. We prove that $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{K}$ is a strong deformation retraction of $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ . In particular, $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ and $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{K}$ are homotopy equivalent. We also describe explicit examples relating $\mathsf X _{\mathbf{{h}},n}^{G}$ to relative character varieties.     

BIB-Designs from Circular Nearrings

Let ${(N, \Phi)}$ be a finite circular Ferrero pair. We define the disk with center b and radius ${a, \mathcal{D}(a;b)}$ , as $$\mathcal{D} (a; b) = \{x \in \Phi(r)+c \mid r \neq 0, b\in \Phi (r)+c, |(\Phi (r)+c) \cap ( \Phi(a)+b)|=1\}.$$ Using this definition we introduce the concept of interior part of a circle, ${\Phi(a)+b}$ , as the set ${\mathcal{I}(\Phi (a)+b)=\mathcal{D} (a; b) \setminus (\Phi (a)+b)}$ . Moreover, if ${\mathcal{B}^{\mathcal{D}}}$ is the set of all disks, then, in some interesting cases, we show that the incidence structure ${(N, \mathcal{B}^{\mathcal{D}}, \in)}$ is actually a balanced incomplete block design and we are able to calculate its parameters depending on |N| and ${|\Phi|}$ .     

Chromatic Gallai identities operating on Lovász number

If $G$ is a triangle-free graph, then two Gallai identities can be written as $\alpha (G)+\overline{\chi }(L(G))=|V(G)|=\alpha (L(G))+\overline{\chi }(G)$ , where $\alpha $ and $\overline{\chi }$ denote the stability number and the clique-partition number, and $L(G)$ is the line graph of  $G$ . We show that, surprisingly, both equalities can be preserved for any graph $G$ by deleting the edges of the line graph corresponding to simplicial pairs of adjacent arcs, according to any acyclic orientation of  $G$ . As a consequence, one obtains an operator $\Phi $ which associates to any graph parameter $\beta $ such that $\alpha (G) \le \beta (G) \le \overline{\chi }(G)$ for all graph $G$ , a graph parameter $\Phi _\beta $ such that $\alpha (G) \le \Phi _\beta (G) \le \overline{\chi }(G)$ for all graph $G$ . We prove that $\vartheta (G) \le \Phi _\vartheta (G)$ and that $\Phi _{\overline{\chi }_f}(G)\le \overline{\chi }_f(G)$ for all graph  $G$ , where $\vartheta $ is Lovász theta function and $\overline{\chi }_f$ is the fractional clique-partition number. Moreover, $\overline{\chi }_f(G) \le \Phi _\vartheta (G)$ for triangle-free $G$ . Comparing to the previous strengthenings $\Psi _\vartheta $ and $\vartheta ^{+ \triangle }$ of $\vartheta $ , numerical experiments show that $\Phi _\vartheta $ is a significant better lower bound for $\overline{\chi }$ than $\vartheta $ .     

1D Schrödinger Operators with Short Range Interactions: Two-Scale Regularization of Distributional Potentials

For real ${L_\infty(\mathbb{R})}$ -functions ${\Phi}$ and ${\Psi}$ of compact support, we prove the norm resolvent convergence, as ${\varepsilon}$ and ${\nu}$ tend to 0, of a family ${S_{\varepsilon \nu}}$ of one-dimensional Schrödinger operators on the line of the form $$S_{\varepsilon \nu} = -\frac{d^2}{dx^2} + \frac{\alpha}{\varepsilon^2} \Phi \left( \frac{x}{\varepsilon} \right) + \frac{\beta}{\nu} \Psi \left(\frac{x}{\nu} \right),$$ provided the ratio ${\nu/\varepsilon}$ has a finite or infinite limit. The limit operator S ₀ depends on the shape of ${\Phi}$ and ${\Psi}$ as well as on the limit of ratio ${\nu/\varepsilon}$ . If the potential ${\alpha\Phi}$ possesses a zero-energy resonance, then S ₀ describes a non trivial point interaction at the origin. Otherwise S ₀ is the direct sum of the Dirichlet half-line Schrödinger operators.     

Parabolic power concavity and parabolic boundary value problems

This paper is concerned with power concavity properties of the solution to the parabolic boundary value problem $$\begin{aligned} (P)\quad \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} \partial _t u=\varDelta u +f(x,t,u,\nabla u) &{} \text{ in }\quad \varOmega \times (0,\infty ),\\ u(x,t)=0 &{} \text{ on }\quad \partial \varOmega \times (0,\infty ),\\ u(x,0)=0 &{} \text{ in }\quad \varOmega , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ where $\varOmega $ is a bounded convex domain in $\mathbf{R}^n$ and $f$ is a nonnegative continuous function in $\varOmega \times (0,\infty )\times \mathbf{R}\times \mathbf{R}^n$ . We give a sufficient condition for the solution of $(P)$ to be parabolically power concave in $\overline{\varOmega }\times [0,\infty )$ .     

Homology of Littlewood complexes

Let $V$ be a symplectic vector space of dimension $2n$ . Given a partition $\lambda $ with at most $n$ parts, there is an associated irreducible representation $\mathbf{{S}}_{[\lambda ]}(V)$ of $\mathbf{{Sp}}(V)$ . This representation admits a resolution by a natural complex $L^{\lambda }_{\bullet }$ , which we call the Littlewood complex, whose terms are restrictions of representations of $\mathbf{{GL}}(V)$ . When $\lambda $ has more than $n$ parts, the representation $\mathbf{{S}}_{[\lambda ]}(V)$ is not defined, but the Littlewood complex $L^{\lambda }_{\bullet }$ still makes sense. The purpose of this paper is to compute its homology. We find that either $L^{\lambda }_{\bullet }$ is acyclic or it has a unique nonzero homology group, which forms an irreducible representation of $\mathbf{{Sp}}(V)$ . The nonzero homology group, if it exists, can be computed by a rule reminiscent of that occurring in the Borel–Weil–Bott theorem. This result can be interpreted as the computation of the “derived specialization” of irreducible representations of $\mathbf{{Sp}}(\infty )$ and as such categorifies earlier results of Koike–Terada on universal character rings. We prove analogous results for orthogonal and general linear groups. Along the way, we will see two topics from commutative algebra: the minimal free resolutions of determinantal ideals and Koszul homology.     

Regularity of the Monge–Ampère equation in Besov’s spaces

Let $\mu = e^{-V} \ dx$ be a probability measure and $T = \nabla \Phi $ be the optimal transportation mapping pushing forward $\mu $ onto a log-concave compactly supported measure $\nu = e^{-W} \ dx$ . In this paper, we introduce a new approach to the regularity problem for the corresponding Monge–Ampère equation $e^{-V} = \det D^2 \Phi \cdot e^{-W(\nabla \Phi )}$ in the Besov spaces $W^{\gamma ,1}_{loc}$ . We prove that $D^2 \Phi \in W^{\gamma ,1}_{loc}$ provided $e^{-V}$ belongs to a proper Besov class and $W$ is convex. In particular, $D^2 \Phi \in L^p_{loc}$ for some $p>1$ . Our proof does not rely on the previously known regularity results.     

Pfaffian representations of cubic surfaces

Let $\mathbb{K }$ be a field of characteristic zero. We describe an algorithm which requires a homogeneous polynomial $F$ of degree three in $\mathbb{K }[x_{0},x_1,x_{2},x_{3}]$ and a zero ${\mathbf{a }}$ of $F$ in $\mathbb{P }^{3}_{\mathbb{K }}$ and ensures a linear Pfaffian representation of $\text{ V}(F)$ with entries in $\mathbb{K }[x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},x_{3}]$ , under mild assumptions on $F$ and ${\mathbf{a }}$ . We use this result to give an explicit construction of (and to prove the existence of) a linear Pfaffian representation of $\text{ V}(F)$ , with entries in $\mathbb{K }^{\prime }[x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},x_{3}]$ , being $\mathbb{K }^{\prime }$ an algebraic extension of $\mathbb{K }$ of degree at most six. An explicit example of such a construction is given.     

Heegner cycles and higher weight specializations of big Heegner points

Let ${\mathbf{{f}}}$ be a $p$ -ordinary Hida family of tame level $N$ , and let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field satisfying the Heegner hypothesis relative to $N$ . By taking a compatible sequence of twisted Kummer images of CM points over the tower of modular curves of level $\Gamma _0(N)\cap \Gamma _1(p^s)$ , Howard has constructed a canonical class $\mathfrak{Z }$ in the cohomology of a self-dual twist of the big Galois representation associated to ${\mathbf{{f}}}$ . If a $p$ -ordinary eigenform $f$ on $\Gamma _0(N)$ of weight $k>2$ is the specialization of ${\mathbf{{f}}}$ at $\nu $ , one thus obtains from $\mathfrak{Z }_{\nu }$ a higher weight generalization of the Kummer images of Heegner points. In this paper we relate the classes $\mathfrak{Z }_{\nu }$ to the étale Abel-Jacobi images of Heegner cycles when $p$ splits in $K$ .     

The Hopf–Lax formula in Carnot groups: a control theoretic approach

The purpose of this paper is to bring a new light on the state-dependent Hamilton–Jacobi equation and its connection with the Hopf–Lax formula in the framework of a Carnot group $(\mathbf G ,\circ ).$ The equation we shall consider is of the form $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} u_{t}+ \Psi (X_{1}u, \ldots , X_{m}u)=0\qquad &{}(x,t)\in \mathbf G \times (0,\infty ) \\ {u}(x,0)=g(x)&{}x\in \mathbf G , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ where $X_{1},\ldots , X_{m}$ are a basis of the first layer of the Lie algebra of the group $\mathbf G ,$ and $\Psi : \mathbb{R }^{m} \rightarrow \mathbb{R }$ is a superlinear, convex function. The main result shows that the unique viscosity solution of the Hamilton–Jacobi equation can be given by the Hopf–Lax formula $$\begin{aligned} u(x,t) = \inf _{y\in \mathbf G }\left\{ t \Psi ^\mathbf{G }\left( \delta _{\frac{1}{t}}(y^{-1}\circ x)\right) + g(y) \right\} , \end{aligned}$$ where $\Psi ^\mathbf{G }:\mathbf G \rightarrow \mathbb{R }$ is the $\mathbf G $ -Legendre–Fenchel transform of $\Psi ,$ defined by a control theoretical approach. We recover, as special cases, some known results like the classical Hopf–Lax formula in the Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R }^n,$ showing that $\Psi ^{\mathbb{R }^n}$ is the Legendre–Fenchel transform $\Psi ^*$ of $\Psi ;$ moreover, we recover the result by Manfredi and Stroffolini in the Heisenberg group for particular Hamiltonian function $\Psi .$ In this paper we follow an optimal control problem approach and we obtain several properties for the value functions $u$ and $\Psi ^\mathbf G .$      

Eta Cocycles, Relative Pairings and the Godbillon–Vey Index Theorem

We prove a Godbillon?CVey index formula for longitudinal Dirac operators on a foliated bundle with boundary ${(X,\mathcal{F})}$ ; in particular, we define a Godbillon?CVey eta invariant on ${(\partial X,\mathcal{F}_{\partial}),}$ that is, a secondary invariant for longitudinal Dirac operators on type III foliations. Moreover, employing the Godbillon?CVey index as a pivotal example, we explain a new approach to higher index theory on geometric structures with boundary. This is heavily based on the interplay between the absolute and relative pairings of K-theory and cyclic cohomology for an exact sequence of Banach algebras, which in the present context takes the form ${0 \to \mathbf{\mathfrak{J}} \to \mathbf{\mathfrak{A}} \to \mathbf{\mathfrak{B}} \to 0}$ with ${ \mathbf{\mathfrak{J}}}$ dense and holomorphically closed in ${C^* (X,\mathcal{F})}$ and ${ \mathbf{\mathfrak{B}}}$ depending only on boundary data. Of particular importance is the definition of a relative cyclic cocycle ${(\tau_{GV}^r,\sigma_{GV})}$ for the pair ${\mathbf{\mathfrak{A}} \to \mathbf{\mathfrak{B}}}$ ; ${\tau_{GV}^r}$ is a cyclic cochain on ${\mathbf{\mathfrak{A}}}$ defined through a regularization à la Melrose of the usual Godbillon?CVey cyclic cocycle ?? _GV ; ?? _GV is a cyclic cocycle on ${\mathbf{\mathfrak{B}}}$ , obtained through a suspension procedure involving ?? _GV and a specific 1-cyclic cocycle (Roe??s 1-cocycle). We call ?? _GV the eta cocycle associated to ?? _GV . The Atiyah?CPatodi?CSinger formula is obtained by defining a relative index class ${{\rm Ind} (D,D^\partial) \in K_* (\mathbf{\mathfrak{A}}, \mathbf{\mathfrak{B}})}$ and establishing the equality ${\langle {\rm Ind} (D), [\tau_{GV}] \rangle\,=\,\langle {\rm Ind} (D,D^\partial), [(\tau^r_{GV}, \sigma_{GV})] \rangle}$ . The Godbillon?CVey eta invariant ?? _GV is obtained through the eta cocycle ?? _GV .     

On linear Hodge-Newton decomposition for reductive monoids

Let $\bar{\mathbf{G}}$ be an irreducible linear reductive monoid over a characteristic zero field F of fractions of a complete discrete valuation ring $\mathfrak{o}$ , such that its group G of units is split over $\mathfrak{o}$ . This paper concerns a relation between the Hodge point and the Newton point associated to an element $\gamma\in\bar{\mathbf{G}}(F)$ , proved by Kottwitz and Viehmann when $\bar{\mathbf{G}}$ is either a connected reductive $\mathfrak{o}$ -split linear algebraic group over F or the monoid of n×n matrices over F. On the way to proving this relation, we apply the Putcha-Renner theory of linear algebraic monoids over algebraically closed fields to study $\bar{\mathbf{G}}(F)$ by generalizing various results for linear algebraic groups over F such as the Iwasawa, Cartan and affine Bruhat decompositions.     

Constructible \nabla -modules on curves

Let $\mathcal{V }$ be a complete discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristic with perfect residue field. Let $X$ be a geometrically connected smooth proper curve over $\mathcal{V }$ . We introduce the notion of constructible convergent $\nabla $ -module on the analytification $X_{K}^{\mathrm{an}}$ of the generic fiber of $X$ . A constructible module is an $\mathcal{O }_{X_{K}^{\mathrm{an}}}$ -module which is not necessarily coherent, but becomes coherent on a stratification by locally closed subsets of the special fiber $X_{k}$ of $X$ . The notions of connection, of (over-) convergence and of Frobenius structure carry over to this situation. We describe a specialization functor from the category of constructible convergent $\nabla $ -modules to the category of $\mathcal{D }^\dagger _{\hat{X} \mathbf{Q }}$ -modules. We show that specialization induces an equivalence between constructible $F$ - $\nabla $ -modules and perverse holonomic $F$ - $\mathcal{D }^\dagger _{\hat{X} \mathbf{Q }}$ -modules.     

On the distinctness of modular reductions of primitive sequences over Z/(232−1)

This paper studies the distinctness of modular reductions of primitive sequences over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ . Let f(x) be a primitive polynomial of degree n over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ and H a positive integer with a prime factor coprime with 2³²?1. Under the assumption that every element in ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ occurs in a primitive sequence of order n over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1)}$ , it is proved that for two primitive sequences ${\underline{a}=(a(t))_{t\geq 0}}$ and ${\underline{b}=(b(t))_{t\geq 0}}$ generated by f(x) over ${\mathbf{Z}/(2^{32}-1), \underline{a}=\underline{b}}$ if and only if ${a\left( t\right) \equiv b\left( t\right) \bmod{H}}$ for all t ≥ 0. Furthermore, the assumption is known to be valid for n between 7 and 100, 000, the range of which is sufficient for practical applications.     

The matrices R and G of matrix analytic methods and the time-inhomogeneous periodic Quasi-Birth-and-Death process

We solve for the asymptotic periodic distribution of the continuous time quasi-birth-and-death process with time-varying periodic rates in terms of $\hat{\mathbf{R}}$ and $\hat{\mathbf{G}}$ matrix functions which are analogues of the R and G matrices of matrix analytic methods. We evaluate these QBDs numerically by solving for $\hat{\mathbf{R}}$ numerically.     

Parabolic contractions of semisimple Lie algebras and their invariants

Let $G$ be a connected semisimple algebraic group with Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g }$ and $P$ a parabolic subgroup of $G$ with $\mathrm{Lie\, }P=\mathfrak{p }$ . The parabolic contraction $\mathfrak{q }$ of $\mathfrak{g }$ is the semi-direct product of $\mathfrak{p }$ and a $\mathfrak{p }$ -module $\mathfrak{g }/\mathfrak{p }$ regarded as an abelian ideal. We are interested in the polynomial invariants of the adjoint and coadjoint representations of $\mathfrak{q }$ . In the adjoint case, the algebra of invariants is easily described and it turns out to be a graded polynomial algebra. The coadjoint case is more complicated. Here we found a connection between symmetric invariants of $\mathfrak{q }$ and symmetric invariants of centralisers $\mathfrak{g }_e\subset \mathfrak{g }$ , where $e\in \mathfrak{g }$ is a Richardson element with polarisation $\mathfrak{p }$ . Using this connection and results of Panyushev et al. (J Algebra 313:343–391, 2007), we prove that the algebra of symmetric invariants of $\mathfrak{q }$ is free for all parabolic subalgebras in types $\mathbf A$ and $\mathbf C$ and some parabolics in type $\mathbf B$ . This technique also applies to the minimal parabolic subalgebras in all types. For $\mathfrak{p }=\mathfrak{b }$ , a Borel subalgebra of $\mathfrak{g }$ , one gets a contraction of $\mathfrak{g }$ recently introduced by Feigin (Selecta Math 18:513–537, 2012) and studied from invariant-theoretic point of view in our previous paper (Panyushev and Yakimova in Ann Inst Fourier 62(6):2053–2068, 2012).