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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

Kaluza-Klein on the brane
G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1997)
393,
59
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(96)01614-0)
Domain walls from anti-de Sitter space-time
H Lu, CN Pope, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1997)
391,
39
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01443-8)
Brane surgery
PK Townsend
– Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
(1997)
58,
163
(doi: 10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00421-0)
Dyonic p-branes from self-dual (p + 1)-branes
MB Green, ND Lambert, G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1996)
384,
86
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00785-x)
D-brane Wess-Zumino actions, T-duality and the cosmological constant
MB Green, CM Hull, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1996)
382,
65
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00643-0)
Intersecting M-branes
G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1996)
380,
273
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00506-0)
Duality of type-II 7-branes and 8-branes
E Bergshoeff, M deRoo, MB Green, G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Nuclear Physics B
(1996)
470,
113
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00171-X)
New supergravities with central charges and Killing spinors in 2+1 dimensions
PS Howe, JM Izquierdo, G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Nuclear Physics B
(1996)
467,
183
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00091-0)
D-branes from M-branes
PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1996)
373,
68
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00104-9)
Dyonic membranes
JM Izquierdo, ND Lambert, G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Nuclear Physics B
(1996)
460,
560
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00606-0)
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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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