Ferdinando Gliozzi

Ferdinando Gliozzi
Born	(1940-04-05) 5 April 1940 (age 84) Turin, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Turin
Known for	GSO projection
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare University of Turin

Ferdinando Gliozzi (Italian: [ferdiˈnando ʎˈʎɔttsi]; born 1940) is a string theorist at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. Along with David Olive and Joël Scherk, he proposed the GSO projection^[1][2] to map out the tachyonic states in the Neveu–Schwarz sector.^[2]

References

1. Gliozzi, Ferdinando; Scherk, Joël; Olive, David I. (1977). "Supersymmetry, Supergravity Theories And The Dual Spinor Model". Nuclear Physics B. 122 (2): 253–290. Bibcode:1977NuPhB.122..253G. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90206-1.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. Polchinski, Joseph (1998). String Theory: Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-521-63304-8.