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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • Postdoc positions at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA; CERN (UK junior fellow), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (Joliot-Curie fellow).
  • Appointed DAMTP lecturer 1984. Currently DAMTP Professor of Theoretical Physics.
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2000

Research

General Relativity, supersymmetry, string/M-theory, solitons, cosmology and various topics in Mathematical Physics

Recent Publications

 

  • E.A. Bergshoeff, W.Merbis, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``The Third Way to 3D Gravity'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. D24 (2015) 1544015
  • L. Mezincescu, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``Twistors and the massive spinning particle'', J. Phys. A49 (2016) 025401
  • A.S. Arvanitakis, L. Mezincescu and P.K. Townsend, ``Worldline CPT and massless supermultiplets'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. A31 (2016) 1650152
  • J. Gomis and P.K. Townsend, ``The Galilean Superstring'', JHEP 1702 (2017) 105
  • A.S. Arvanitakis, A.E. Barns-Graham and P.K. Townsend, ``Anti-de Sitter particles and manifest (super)isometries'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 141601

Publications

Causality and energy conditions in nonlinear electrodynamics
JG Russo, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
191
Causal self-dual electrodynamics
JG Russo, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(2024)
109,
105023
Trirefringence and the M5-brane
I Bandos, K Lechner, D Sorokin, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
171
On chiral bosons in 2D and 6D
L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
142
Aether, dark energy and string compactifications.
PK Townsend
– Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
(2022)
380,
20210185
ModMax meets Susy
I Bandos, K Lechner, D Sorokin, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
31
On p-form gauge theories and their conformal limits
I Bandos, K Lechner, D Sorokin, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
22
Nonlinear duality-invariant conformal extension of Maxwell's equations
I Bandos, K Lechner, D Sorokin, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(2020)
102,
121703
An interacting conformal chiral 2-form electrodynamics in six dimensions*
PK Townsend
– Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
(2020)
476,
20190863
A manifestly Lorentz invariant chiral boson action
PK Townsend
– Physical Review Letters
(2020)
124,
101604
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B0.34