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Pietro G. Frè (2023)

Pietro G. Frè (born 1952) is an Italian theoretical physicist and an emeritus full professor of the University of Turin.

Early life and education

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Pietro G. Frè was born in Alessandria, Italy in 1952.

Career

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Frè was a fellow at the Theoretical Division of CERN,[1] a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and Bielefeld University in the early years of his career. He was an associate professor at the University of Turin, a full professor at the International School for Advanced Studies for six years, and, since 1996, a full professor at the University of Turin as the chair of general relativity.

From 2009 to 2017 he was the scientific counselor of the Italian Embassy in Moscow. From 1996 to 2000 he was president of SIGRAV (Italian Society of General Relativity and Physics of Gravitation), and from 2017 to 2021 he was director of the Arnold Regge Center of Theoretical Physics.

Contributions

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Among his major contributions in theoretical physics, of particular note are the introduction of the rheonomic formulation of supergravity (with R. D'Auria),[2] the independent invention under the name of "Cartan Integrable Systems" of Free Differential Algebras[3] and their extension with fermionic p-forms, the D'Auria-Frè algebra,[4] later evolved into the L-infinity algebras, the geometric formulation of the eleven-dimensional supergravity (low-energy limit of M-theory), the geometric systematization of the N=2 Supergravity lagrangian[5] (with S. Ferrara et al.), the introduction of the embedding matrix formulation of maximal gauged sueprgravity,[6] later evolved in the embedding tensor formulation[7][8][9][10] of extended supergravities, the discovery of some of the homogeneous Sasakian manifolds in seven dimensions[11] and the first development of their holographic equivalents by quivers.

In recent years Pietro Frè has made original research in the context of Kronheimer construction and McKay quivers.[12][13]

Essays and Literature

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Pietro Frè is also an essay and novel writer. He has published a few novels in Italian[14][15][16] and essays on the history of mathematical conceptions[17] and an essay on the history of Ukraine and Russia.[18]

References

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  1. ^ D'Auria, R; Fre, P (1985). "Universal Bose-Fermi mass-relations in Kaluza-Klein supergravity and harmonic analysis on coset manifolds with Killing spinors". Annals of Physics. 162 (2): 372–412. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(85)90166-6.
  2. ^ Frè, Pietro Giuseppe (2013). Gravity, a Geometrical Course. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5443-0. ISBN 978-94-007-5442-3.
  3. ^ Fre, P (1984-11-11). "Comments on the 6-index photon in d=11 supergravity and the gauging of free differential algebras". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 1 (6): L81–L90. Bibcode:1984CQGra...1L..81F. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/1/6/005. ISSN 0264-9381. S2CID 250814755.
  4. ^ D'Auria, R.; Fré, P. (June 1982). "Geometric supergravity in D=11 and its hidden supergroup". Nuclear Physics B. 201 (1): 101–140. Bibcode:1982NuPhB.201..101D. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90376-5.
  5. ^ Andrianopoli, L.; Bertolini, M.; Ceresole, A.; D'Auria, R.; Ferrara, S.; Fré, P.; Magri, T. (September 1997). "N = 2 supergravity and N = 2 super Yang-Mills theory on general scalar manifolds: Symplectic covariance gaugings and the momentum map". Journal of Geometry and Physics. 23 (2): 111–189. arXiv:hep-th/9605032. Bibcode:1997JGP....23..111A. doi:10.1016/S0393-0440(97)00002-8. S2CID 18742995.
  6. ^ Cordaro, Francesco; Fré, Pietro; Gualtieri, Leonardo; Termonia, Piet; Trigiante, Mario (October 1998). "N = 8 gaugings revisited: an exhaustive classification". Nuclear Physics B. 532 (1–2): 245–279. arXiv:hep-th/9804056. Bibcode:1998NuPhB.532..245C. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00449-0. S2CID 119359609.
  7. ^ Nicolai, H.; Samtleben, H. (2001-02-26). "Maximal Gauged Supergravity in Three Dimensions". Physical Review Letters. 86 (9): 1686–1689. arXiv:hep-th/0010076. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..86.1686N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1686. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0013-55AE-4. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 11290224. S2CID 20407583.
  8. ^ de Wit, Bernard; Samtleben, Henning; Trigiante, Mario (April 2003). "On Lagrangians and gaugings of maximal supergravities". Nuclear Physics B. 655 (1–2): 93–126. arXiv:hep-th/0212239. Bibcode:2003NuPhB.655...93D. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00059-2. S2CID 15173571.
  9. ^ Samtleben, Henning (2008-11-07). "Lectures on gauged supergravity and flux compactifications". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 25 (21): 214002. arXiv:0808.4076. Bibcode:2008CQGra..25u4002S. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/21/214002. ISSN 0264-9381. S2CID 17617820.
  10. ^ Trigiante, Mario (March 2017). "Gauged supergravities". Physics Reports. 680: 1–175. arXiv:1609.09745. Bibcode:2017PhR...680....1T. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2017.03.001. S2CID 118694790.
  11. ^ Fabbri, Davide; Fré, Pietro; Gualtieri, Leonardo; Reina, Cesare; Tomasiello, Alessandro; Zaffaroni, Alberto; Zampa, Alessandro (June 2000). "3D superconformal theories from Sasakian seven-manifolds: new non-trivial evidences for". Nuclear Physics B. 577 (3): 547–608. arXiv:hep-th/9907219. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00098-5. S2CID 118240778.
  12. ^ Bruzzo, Ugo; Fino, Anna; Fré, Pietro (January 2019). "The Kähler Quotient Resolution of $${{\mathbb{C}}^3/ \Gamma}$$ C 3 / Γ Singularities, the McKay Correspondence and $${D = 3\,\,\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ D = 3 N = 2 Chern–Simons Gauge Theories". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 365 (1): 93–214. arXiv:1710.01046. doi:10.1007/s00220-018-3203-z. ISSN 0010-3616. S2CID 253744624.
  13. ^ Bruzzo, Ugo; Fino, Anna; Fré, Pietro; Grassi, Pietro Antonio; Markushevich, Dimitri (November 2019). "Crepant resolutions of ℂ 3 / Z 4 and the generalized Kronheimer construction (in view of the gauge/gravity correspondence)". Journal of Geometry and Physics. 145: 103467. arXiv:1902.01060. doi:10.1016/j.geomphys.2019.06.018. S2CID 119281746.
  14. ^ Frè, Pietro (2006). Il Concorso (in Italian). Simonelli editore. ISBN 9788876471827.
  15. ^ Frè, Pietro (2007). Il Codice Cromlon (in Italian). Simonelli Editore. ISBN 9788876472572.
  16. ^ Frè, Pietro (2018). Squame di Pesce (in Italian). ZonaFranca Editore, Lucca. ISBN 9788897025177.
  17. ^ Fré, Pietro Giuseppe (2018). A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry: From Plato to the Superworld. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Bibcode:2018chss.book.....F. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98023-2. ISBN 978-3-319-98022-5.
  18. ^ Frè, Pietro (2023). Kiev e Mosca nella Storia, amarezza e ricordi di un diplomatico pro tempore (in Italian). Rubbettino Editore. ISBN 9788849878066.
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