Augusto Sagnotti

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Augusto Sagnotti
John H. Schwarz

Augusto Sagnotti (born 1955) is an Italian theoretical physicist at Scuola Normale (since 2005).

Biography

Sagnotti earned a

Caltech in 1983 (advisor: John H. Schwarz). He was Post-Doctoral Fellow at Caltech (1983–84) and Miller Research Fellow at U.C. Berkeley (1984–86).[citation needed
]

Sagnotti was Junior Faculty at the

Conformal Field Theory and to Higher-Spin Gauge Fields.[citation needed
]

Sagnotti's main contribution to physics is perhaps the analysis of the

open and closed strings, non supersymmetric but free of tachyons.[11][12] He has worked extensively on higher spins, arriving at a geometric formulation of their free field equations in terms of higher-spin curvatures.[13]

More recently, Sagnotti has been working on the proposal of a possible link between "

inflationary phase, and on the exploration of some of its possible imprints on the CMB,[18] in particular, the proposal that the low value of the CMB quadrupole[19] and a first peak for l ~5[20]
be a manifestation of the onset of the inflationary phase.

Awards and honors

Sagnotti received the Carosio Prize from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1979, a Miller Fellowship from U.C. Berkeley in 1984, shared with Massimo Bianchi the 1994 SIGRAV Prize of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation,[21] and received the Margherita Hack Prize for Science in 2014 for his work on the quantization of gravity and a Humboldt Research Award in 2018.[22] He was also Andrejewski Lecturer at Humboldt Universitat in Berlin in 1999.

Books

  • String Theory, eds. C. Procesi and A. Sagnotti (Academic Press, 1988)
  • String Theory, Quantum Gravity and the Unification of the Fundamental Interactions, eds. M. Bianchi, F. Fucito, V. Marinari and A. Sagnotti (World Scientific, 1992)

References

  1. ^ Goroff, M. H.; Sagnotti, A. (1985). "Quantum gravity at two loops".
    doi:10.1016/0370-2693(85)91470-4
    .
  2. ^ Goroff, M. H.; Sagnotti, A. (1986). "The ultraviolet behavior of Einstein gravity".
    doi:10.1016/0550-3213(86)90193-8
    .
  3. ^ Sagnotti, A. (1988). "Open strings and their symmetry groups". In 't Hooft, G.; Jaffe, A.; Mack, G.; Mitter, P. K.; Stora, R. (eds.). Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory.
    Bibcode:2002hep.th....8020S
    .
  4. ^ Sagnotti, A. (1992). "A note on the Green–Schwarz mechanism in open-string theories".
    S2CID 14528538
    .
  5. ^ Angelantonj, C.; Sagnotti, A. (2002). "Open strings".
    S2CID 119334893
    .
  6. ^ Pradisi, G.; Sagnotti, A. (1989). "Open string orbifolds".
    doi:10.1016/0370-2693(89)91369-5
    .
  7. ^ Bianchi, M.; Sagnotti, A. (1990). "On the systematics of open string theories".
    doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)91894-H
    .
  8. ^ Bianchi, M.; Pradisi, G.; Sagnotti, A. (1992). "Toroidal compactification and symmetry breaking in open string theories".
    doi:10.1016/0550-3213(92)90129-Y
    .
  9. ^ Fioravanti, D.; Pradisi, G.; Sagnotti, A. (1994). "Sewing constraints and non-orientable open strings".
    S2CID 15330492
    .
  10. ^ Pradisi, Gianfranco; Sagnotti, Augusto; Stanev, Yassen S. (1996). "Completeness conditions for boundary operators in 2D conformal field theory".
    S2CID 119096336
    .
  11. ^ Sagnotti, A. (1995). "Some properties of open-string theories".
    arXiv:hep-th/9509080
    .
  12. ^ Sagnotti, A. (1997). "Surprises in open-string perturbation theory".
    S2CID 13867997
    .
  13. ^ Francia, D.; Sagnotti, A. (2002). "Free geometric equations for higher spins".
    S2CID 14912668
    .
  14. ^ Sugimoto, S. (1999). "Anomaly cancellations in the type I D9-D9 system and the USp(32) string theory".
    S2CID 14476861
    .
  15. ^ Antoniadis, I.; Dudas, E.; Sagnotti, A. (1999). "Brane supersymmetry breaking".
    S2CID 16185036
    .
  16. ^ Angelantonj, C. (2000). "Comments on open-string orbifolds with a non-vanishing Bab".
    S2CID 15795436
    .
  17. ^ Aldazabal, G.; Uranga, A. M. (1999). "Tachyon-free non-supersymmetric type IIB orientifolds via brane-antibrane systems".
    S2CID 15612821
    .
  18. ^ Kitazawa, N.; Sagnotti, A. (2014). "Pre-inflationary clues from string theory?".
    S2CID 119232246
    .
  19. ^ Hu, W. "Quadrupole types and polarization patterns". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  20. ^ Abdalla, F. B. "Observational cosmology: The CMB" (PDF). University College London. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  21. ^ "I Premi SIGRAV". Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  22. ^ "Von Humboldt Foundation Prizes awarded to Professor Ferrara and Professor Sagnotti". Normale News. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

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