Advances in Geometry and Lie Algebras from Supergravity

Pietro Frè is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino, Italy and is currently serving as Scientific Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Moscow. He has taught General Relativity for 15 years. His scientific passion lies in supergravity and all allied topics, since the inception of the field, in 1976. He was professor at SISSA, worked in the USA and at CERN. He has taught General Relativity for 15 years. He has previously published four scientific monographs. He is also the author of a popular science book on cosmology (“Il fascino oscuro dell’inflazione”, Springer 2009), and two novels, in Italian.

1 Finite Groups and Lie Algebras.- 2 Isometries and the Geometry of COSET Manifolds.- 3 Complex and Quaternionic Geometry.- 4 Special Geometries.- 5 Solvable Algebras and the TITS Satake Projection.- 6 Black Holes and Nilpotent Orbits.- 7 E7, F4 and supergravitiy scalar potentials.- 8 (Hyper)Kaehler Quotients, Ale-Manifolds and Cn/ Singularities.- 9 Epilogue.- 10 The Bibliography.