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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

6-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)
Supersymmetry of rotating branes
JP Gauntlett, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1998)
59,
025001
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.59.025001)
Black holes and superconformal mechanics
P Claus, M Derix, R Kallosh, J Kumar, PK Townsend, A Van Proeyen
– Physical Review Letters
(1998)
81,
4553
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.81.4553)
Brane-intersection dynamics from branes in brane backgrounds
PK Townsend, J Gomis, D Mateos, J Simon
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1998)
430,
231
Gauged supergravity vacua from intersecting branes
PM Cowdall, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1998)
429,
281
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00445-6)
Conformal theory of M2, D3, M5 and `D1+D5' branes
P Claus, A Van Proeyen, R Kallosh, J Kumar, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(1998)
2,
004
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/06/004)
BPS bounds for worldvolume branes
JP Gauntlett, J Gomis, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(1998)
2,
003
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/01/003)
M-branes at angles
PK Townsend
– Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
(1998)
67,
88
(doi: 10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00124-8)
M(embrane) theory on T-9.
PK Townsend
– Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
(1998)
68,
11
(doi: 10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00136-4)
Supersymmetry of M-branes at angles
PK Townsend, N Ohta
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1998)
418,
77
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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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