Pietro G. Frè Explained

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

Early life and education

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

Career

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

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

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]

Notes and References

  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 . en . 162 . 2 . 372–412 . 10.1016/0003-4916(85)90166-6.
  2. Book: Frè, Pietro Giuseppe . Gravity, a Geometrical Course . 2013 . Springer Netherlands . 978-94-007-5442-3 . Dordrecht . en . 10.1007/978-94-007-5443-0.
  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 . 10.1088/0264-9381/1/6/005 . 1984CQGra...1L..81F . 250814755 . 0264-9381.
  4. D'Auria . R. . Fré . P. . June 1982 . Geometric supergravity in D=11 and its hidden supergroup . Nuclear Physics B . en . 201 . 1 . 101–140 . 10.1016/0550-3213(82)90376-5. 1982NuPhB.201..101D .
  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 . en . 23 . 2 . 111–189 . 10.1016/S0393-0440(97)00002-8. hep-th/9605032 . 1997JGP....23..111A . 18742995 .
  6. Cordaro . Francesco . Fré . Pietro . Gualtieri . Leonardo . Termonia . Piet . Trigiante . Mario . October 1998 . N = 8 gaugings revisited: an exhaustive classification . Nuclear Physics B . en . 532 . 1–2 . 245–279 . 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00449-0. hep-th/9804056 . 1998NuPhB.532..245C . 119359609 .
  7. Nicolai . H. . Samtleben . H. . 2001-02-26 . Maximal Gauged Supergravity in Three Dimensions . Physical Review Letters . en . 86 . 9 . 1686–1689 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1686 . 11290224 . hep-th/0010076 . 2001PhRvL..86.1686N . 11858/00-001M-0000-0013-55AE-4 . 20407583 . 0031-9007.
  8. de Wit . Bernard . Samtleben . Henning . Trigiante . Mario . April 2003 . On Lagrangians and gaugings of maximal supergravities . Nuclear Physics B . en . 655 . 1–2 . 93–126 . 10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00059-2. hep-th/0212239 . 2003NuPhB.655...93D . 15173571 .
  9. Samtleben . Henning . 2008-11-07 . Lectures on gauged supergravity and flux compactifications . Classical and Quantum Gravity . 25 . 21 . 214002 . 10.1088/0264-9381/25/21/214002 . 0808.4076 . 2008CQGra..25u4002S . 17617820 . 0264-9381.
  10. Trigiante . Mario . March 2017 . Gauged supergravities . Physics Reports . en . 680 . 1–175 . 10.1016/j.physrep.2017.03.001. 1609.09745 . 2017PhR...680....1T . 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 . en . 577 . 3 . 547–608 . 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00098-5. 118240778 . hep-th/9907219 .
  12. Bruzzo . Ugo . Fino . Anna . Fré . Pietro . January 2019 . The Kähler Quotient Resolution of $$$$ C 3 / Γ Singularities, the McKay Correspondence and $$$$ D = 3 N = 2 Chern–Simons Gauge Theories . Communications in Mathematical Physics . en . 365 . 1 . 93–214 . 10.1007/s00220-018-3203-z . 1710.01046 . 253744624 . 0010-3616.
  13. Bruzzo . Ugo . Fino . Anna . Fré . Pietro . Grassi . Pietro Antonio . Markushevich . Dimitri . November 2019 . Crepant resolutions of 3 / Z 4 and the generalized Kronheimer construction (in view of the gauge/gravity correspondence) . Journal of Geometry and Physics . en . 145 . 103467 . 10.1016/j.geomphys.2019.06.018. 119281746 . free . 1902.01060 .
  14. Book: Frè, Pietro . Il Concorso . Simonelli editore . 2006 . 9788876471827 . Italian.
  15. Book: Frè, Pietro . Il Codice Cromlon . Simonelli Editore . 2007 . 9788876472572 . Italian.
  16. Book: Frè, Pietro . Squame di Pesce . ZonaFranca Editore, Lucca . 2018 . 9788897025177 . Italian.
  17. Book: Fré, Pietro Giuseppe . A Conceptual History of Space and Symmetry: From Plato to the Superworld . 2018 . Springer International Publishing . 978-3-319-98022-5 . Cham . en . 10.1007/978-3-319-98023-2. 2018chss.book.....F .
  18. Book: Frè, Pietro . Kiev e Mosca nella Storia, amarezza e ricordi di un diplomatico pro tempore . Rubbettino Editore . 2023 . 9788849878066 . Italian.

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