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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

More on d=5 Maxwell-Einstein supergravity: symmetric spaces and kinks
M Gunaydin, G Sierra, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
3,
763
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/3/5/007)
Six-dimensional simple and extended chiral supergravity in superspace
M Awada, PK Townsend, G Sierra
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
2,
L85
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/2/4/005)
Massive sigma-models with supersymmetry
G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
11,
515
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/11/3/007)
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)
Higher-dimensional resolution of dilatonic black-hole singularities
GW Gibbons, GT Horowitz, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
12,
297
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/12/2/004)
Chern-Simons quantum mechanics
PS Howe, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
7,
1655
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/7/9/016)
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)
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)
Massive ( p, q)-supersymmetric sigma models revisited
G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
11,
2163
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/11/9/004)
Gravitational stability and renormalization-group flow
K Skenderis, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1999)
468,
46
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(99)01212-5)
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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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