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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

The domain-wall/QFT correspondence
PK Townsend, HJ Boonstra, K Skenderis
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(1999)
01,
003
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)
Black holes and Calogero models
GW Gibbons, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics
(1999)
454,
187
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00266-X)
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)
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)
Massive sigma-models with (p,q) supersymmetry
G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
11,
515
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/11/3/007)
Spacetime scale-invariance and the super p-brane
E Bergshoeff, LAJ London, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
9,
2545
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/9/12/002)
Gravitational stability and renormalization-group flow
K Skenderis, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1999)
468,
46
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01212-5)
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)
M-theory from its superalgebra
PK Townsend
– STRINGS, BRANES AND DUALITIES
(1999)
520,
141
(link to publication)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

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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