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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

New massive gravity
EA Bergshoeff, O Hohm, PK Townsend
– 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories Proc of the mg 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
(2012)
2329
(doi: 10.1142/9789814374552_0470)
On "new massive" 4D gravity
EA Bergshoeff, JJ Fernández-Melgarejo, J Rosseel, PK Townsend
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(2012)
2012,
070
(doi: 10.1007/jhep04(2012)070)
3D strings and other anyonic things
L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– Fortschritte der Physik
(2012)
60,
1076
(doi: 10.1002/prop.201200001)
A spin-4 analog of 3D massive gravity
EA Bergshoeff, M Kovacevic, J Rosseel, PK Townsend, YH Yin
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2011)
28,
245007
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/28/24/245007)
Quantum 3D superstrings
L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology
(2011)
84,
106006
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.84.106006)
On Critical Massive (Super)Gravity in adS3
EA Bergshoeff, O Hohm, J Rosseel, E Sezgin, PK Townsend
– SPANISH RELATIVITY MEETING (ERE 2010): GRAVITY AS A CROSSROAD IN PHYSICS
(2011)
314,
012009
(doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/314/1/012009)
Modes of log gravity
EA Bergshoeff, O Hohm, J Rosseel, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology
(2011)
83,
104038
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.104038)
Gravitons in flatland
EA Bergshoeff, O Hohm, PK Townsend
– Springer Proceedings in Physics
(2011)
137,
291
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19760-4_27)
The quantum 3D superparticle
L Mezincesu, PK Townsend
– Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)
(2011)
7,
ARTN 005
(doi: 10.3842/sigma.2011.005)
The quantum 3D superparticle
L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications Sigma
(2011)
7,
(doi: 10.3842/SIGMA.2011.005)
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Research Group

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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