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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Paul Kingsley Townsend

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

M-theory from its superalgebra
PK Townsend
– STRINGS, BRANES AND DUALITIES
(1999)
520,
141
(link to publication)
Spacetime versus world-surface conformal invariance for particles, strings and membranes
ERC ABRAHAM, PS HOWE, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
6,
1541
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/6/11/009)
The domain-wall/QFT correspondence
PK Townsend, HJ Boonstra, K Skenderis
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(1999)
01,
003
Quantum mechanics of the relativistic spinning particle
JC HENTY, PS HOWE, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
5,
807
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/5/5/013)
Chern-Simons quantum mechanics
PS HOWE, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
7,
1655
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/7/9/016)
Elliptic functions and the closed spinning-string propagator
L Mezincescu, RI Nepomechie, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
6,
l29
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/6/2/005)
MORE ON D = 5 MAXWELL-EINSTEIN SUPERGRAVITY - SYMMETRICAL-SPACES AND KINKS
M GUNAYDIN, G SIERRA, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
3,
763
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/3/5/007)
A particle mechanics description of antisymmetric tensor fields
P Howe, S Penati, M Pernici, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
6,
1125
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/6/8/012)
Eguchi-Hanson type metrics from harmonic superspace
A GALPERIN, E IVANOV, V OGIEVETSKY, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
3,
625
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/3/4/017)
Convex cones, Jordan algebras and the geometry of d=9 Maxwell-Einstein supergravity
M AWADA, PK TOWNSEND, M GUNAYDIN, G SIERRA
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
2,
801
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/2/6/007)
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Email

pkt10@cam.ac.uk

Room

B0.34

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/about/members/townsend.html

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